Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love – SFMOMA

If you can’t Journey to Naoshima to see her infamous Apple on the pier, venture to SFMOMA for Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love. October 14, 2023–September 7,2024. Our clients are making the Journey to Japan, if you can’t, then don’t miss this colorful adventure. Tickets are selling out.

Yayoi Kusama, Naoshima Apple

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most iconic and celebrated artists working today. With connections to Pop Art, Minimalism, psychedelia, and popular culture, Kusama’s multidisciplinary career transcends categories as the artist continues to innovate over a career spanning more than 70 years.

Enter an unforgettable universe of luminous color and endless reflections, only at SFMOMA! Experience the kaleidoscopic world of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most iconic and globally celebrated artists working today. Kusama’s first solo presentation in Northern California encompasses two Infinity Mirror Rooms, including her newest room, Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love (2023), a cosmos of dancing color and light.

LOVE IS CALLING (2013), the second room in the presentation — and one of Kusama’s largest and most immersive works — features a darkened environment illuminated by vividly colored inflatable forms that extend from the floor and ceiling accompanied by the sound of the artist reciting a poem about love.

“Dots are symbols of the world, the cosmos. The Earth is a dot, the moon, sun, the stars are all made up of dots. You and me, we are dots.”

— Yayoi Kusama

Cherry Blossoms – Japan

Cherry blossom season is on the horizon, it’s not too late to reserve a Journey to Japan to celebrate spring. The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo is a splendid beginning; move onward after a few leisurely days to Nikko, Kyoto and Naoshima if inclined.

Cherry blossomsCherry blossom trees, known as Sakura, number in the thousands in Japan and the blossom season is highly anticipated by the Japanese people. The blossoming is feted with huge festivals and and family picnics. The petal falling time, which occurs after the blossoms, is as significant, as it is a reminder of the fragility and beauty of life. The intense bloom provides pleasure, however it is also a visual reminder of the precarious and precious aspect of life on earth.

This annual spring passage has been celebrated for hundreds of years, not only do the Japanese marvel at the delicate beauty of the fragile petals, they ponder the deeper meaning, the symbolic nature of their cultural beliefs.

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