Between the towering cranes and
construction that envelope the landscape of East London, a super-sizing of
quite another sort may be found behind the walls of Victoria Miro’s Wharf Road
gallery. In my latest blog entry for Ohh Deer, I visit a new body of work by
visionary artist Yayoi Kusama. A series of three oversized pumpkins lie on the
gallery’s enviable water garden – a fitting synergy with the Japanese artist’s
longstanding intrigue of the natural world.
Pumpkins, 2014 by Yayoi Kusama - Victoria Miro, Wharf Road gallery London
Pumpkins mark the first time Kusama
has worked with bronze on this scale, ranging from knee to head height. The plant has played a prolific role in the eccentric
artist’s career – first making an appearance as early as 1948. After over five
decades, Kusama affirms there is much more fantasy to be explored with this bulbous
form, reinterpreted in her trademark Pop aesthetic that has been revered in major international exhibitions to commercial collaborations with luxury fashion house
My full review Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkins - on show until 19th December 2014 in the Victoria Miro garden - is
now available to read on the Ohh Deer blog.
Look out for other public artworks by the
artist during Frieze London 2014 at Frieze Sculpture Park in the English Garden
in Regent’s Park between 15th - 19th October 2014.
Image courtesy of Victoria Miro
