00:00Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama died at the age of 97.
00:06His death, which occurred on August 14, was announced Thursday by his society in a statement.
00:12Throughout a prolific career that included a long stay in the United States,
00:17Kusama transformed her hallucinations and traumas into an original work
00:21marked by the endless repetition of emblematic motifs such as polka dots.
00:27I feel that his work was something that even those unfamiliar with art could appreciate.
00:32with vibrant designs and bold use of color, or by turning something like a pumpkin into a work of art
00:38of art.
00:39She conveyed her worldview in a very unique way.
00:45Born in 1929, Kusama studied fine arts in Japan and in the late 1950s settled in the United States
00:51Joined,
00:52where he established himself as one of the leading figures of the New York avant-garde.
00:55Despite the discrimination she suffered in a country still marked by the Second World War,
01:01He managed to make himself known with his works and provocative happenings in the 1960s.
01:06He also launched a clothing brand and founded a church of self-destruction.
01:10and she proclaimed herself high priestess of the moles to officiate a wedding between two men.
01:15Back in Japan in the 1970s,
01:18Kusama voluntarily decided to enter a psychiatric center in Tokyo,
01:22where he lived and worked until the end of his long life.
01:25His pumpkin sculptures and immersive installations
01:29They attracted crowds and sold for millions of dollars.
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