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100			_aKusama, Yayoi _93121
245		0	_aYayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons _c/ Phoebe Greenwood
260			_bFactory International Publishing; _c2023
300			_a144p; _c29x21cm
520			_aNew book ‘Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons’ from Factory International. Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is renowned and adored for her surreal world of dots, pumpkins and Infinity Mirror Rooms. The Japanese artist’s pioneering career spans seven decades and she is now a global phenomenon. Her hallucinatory paintings, sculptures, and immersive environments invite us to join her very personal artistic investigation into the big cosmic questions of human existence. This is the first ever publication dedicated to the artist’s inflatable artworks – her fantastical large-scale balloon environments (1996 ongoing) that appear to defy gravity and that beguilingly play with our sense of space and scale, mind and body, reality and illusion. Richly illustrated, with a new essay by poet and critic Akira Tatehata; a new interview with Yayoi Kusama about her ‘balloons’; a new conversation between psychotherapist Philippa Perry and neuroscientist Professor Anil Seth about Kusama’s perceptual magic; and a complete illustrated history of Kusama’s inflatable artworks. The book also features an updated text by curators Seungduk Kim and Franck Gautherot on a magical decade working with Kusama and her inflatables; and a comprehensive illustrated artist biography including images and ephemera from Kusama’s archive. Published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons’, Jun 30 – 28 Aug 2023, the first exhibition at the UK’s most ambitious new cultural venue, Factory International, Manchester, UK.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aN4390-5098 Exhibitions
651			_aJapan _91129
700			_aGautherot, Franck _93122
700			_aGreenwood, Phoebe _93123
700			_aKim, Seungduk _93124
700			_aKusama, Yayoi _93121
700			_aPerry, Philippa _93125
700			_aSeth, Anil _93126
700			_aTatehata, Akira _93127
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