Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn’t Sorry.

This clever, quirky book welcomes younger readers into the imaginative world of celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

Fausto Gilberti provides an accessible biography of Yayoi Kusama inspired by the artist’s iconic dots motif. Striking black and white illustrations guide the reader through Kusama’s unique timeline, from the meadows of rural Japan to fish heads and happenings in 1960s New York. Written from Kusama’s point of view, Gilberti highlights the artist’s love of experimentation and key inspirations including, nature, freedom and infinity.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Phaidon Press; Illustrated edition (12 Mar. 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1838660801
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1838660802
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4 – 7 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.35 x 0.95 x 22.73 cm

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer, whose work is often instantly recognisable in its use of psychedelic colours, repetition, and pattern. An important figure in the avant-garde, she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, soft sculpture, performance art, film and environmental installations. Kusama is acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to have come out of Japan.

Fausto Gilberti is a painter and illustrator based in Brescia, Italy. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, and has been part of more than a hundred solo and group exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad. He wrote this artist biography book to make contemporary art approachable and enjoyable for his two children.