Kusama: Infinity

About the movie

Yayoi Kusama – known for her innovative soft-sculpture, immersive, polka-dotted experiences – is among Japan's most revered living artists. With art that strides the abstract, cute and bizarre, this 83-year-old, orange-wigged living doll is the consummate avant-gardist. She exists in a self-contained bubble of spacy illusions and ephemeral visions, and for the past 38 years has lived voluntarily in a Tokyo psychiatric hospital across the street from her painting studio. Frequent exhibitions at MoMA and the Whitney, prestigious gallery shows, mountains of published monographs, and scores of fashion products bearing her imprimatur attest to her surprising popularity.
Kusama - Infinity explores Yayoi Kusama’s journey from a conservative upbringing in Japan to her brush with fame in America during the 1960s (where she rivaled Andy Warhol for press attention) and concludes with the international fame she has finally achieved within the art world."An inspiring portrait of the legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who battled sexism, racism, and mental illness to achieve herpresent day success." - Screen Anarchy

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