Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

Airmail--Accumulation

细节

Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Airmail--Accumulation
signed, titled, and dated '1963 YAYOI KUSAMA AIRMAIL-ACCUMULATION' (on the reverse)
stamps on paper
9¼ x 12 1/8 in. (23.5 x 30.8 cm.)
Executed in 1963.

来源

Collection of Richard Castellane, New York
Private collection, Japan

展览

New York, Center for International Contemporary Arts, Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, September 1989-January 1990, p. 51, no. 22 (illustrated in color).

拍品专文

It is inevitable to compare Kusama's collages to Andy Warhol's series of the same year: the grids of multiple one-dollar bills, Campbell's Soup cans, Marilyns, and Coca-Cola bottles. Warhol also used images of mailing labels and stamps...The principal difference between Kusama's airmail sticker series and the majority of Warhol's multiples is that Kusama uses the actual object in the modernist collage tradition, whereas Warhol represents it in photographic silkscreen. Kusama's collages [of the 1960's] represent new developments of an old and recurring theme in her art: repetition, aggregation and accumulation

(A. Munroe, "Obsession, Fantasy and Outrage: The Art of Yayoi Kusama," Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, 1989, p. 20).