Encuentros
Encuentros is a programme through which Museo Reina Sofía hopes to generate debate regarding the exhibitions held in the museum. In it, artists, curators, critics and historians, coinciding in time with the public opening of the exhibitions, engage in different formats of dialogue which present and question the lines and paths converging in or arising out of the exhibitions, and discuss the evolution of the artists or the nature of the exhibition itself.
Yayoi Kusama. Alice in Wonderland, 1968. Happening.
Yayoi Kusama. Frances Morris
Date: May 11, 2011
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Admission: Free admission, seating on a first-come, first-served basis
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There is no possible separation between art and life with Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1928). She was an active member in the critical art scene during the Vietnam War in the 1960s in New York, where she was also connected to minimalism, happenings and pop art. In 1973, she returned to Japan, extending the boundaries of her work. Her heterogeneous production ranges from collage to musical compositions, design, novels and installation art. Kusama obsessively develops the idea of repetition and screentone, covering surfaces with polka dots, creating what she calls ‘infinity nets’, one of her trademarks.
The exhibition Yayoi Kusama (Museo Reina Sofía, 11 May – 18 September 2011), organised in collaboration with the Tate Modern, London, is the first large retrospective dedicated to the artist to date.
Curator Frances Morris, Head of Collections (International Art) at the Tate Modern, is participating in the public presentation of the exhibition.
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