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Kusama: Infinity

Directed by
Heather Lenz
Duration
100 min.
Year
2018
Language
English

Yayoi Kusama is today the most successful living artist in the world. But before her radical artistic visions gained worldwide attention, she had to overcome countless obstacles. The trauma of growing up in Japan during World War II, life in a dysfunctional family, sexism and racism in the art world, and, not least, mental illness consistently made her an outsider. Despite all this, Kusama has created an enormous body of work ranging from paintings, sculptures, and installations to poetry and novels. Her exhibitions featuring the world-famous Infinity Mirror Rooms and Polka Dots draw record-breaking crowds around the globe, while she herself never tires of expanding her wondrous universe with new works.

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