Yayoi Kusama

Untitled

About this artwork

An ordinary baking tray is filled not with food, but instead crude phallic protrusions. These stuffed fabric sacks wriggle out from their metal container in a haphazard and unsettling manner. This tactile sculpture is knowingly comic and absurd. An accompanying serving spoon daintily offers up a single, squat phallus, as if for consumption. Kusama used bronze spray paint to unify these soft shapes, but in places the different fabrics she used for stuffing are visible, including a black and yellow polka-dot textile. The artist is renowned for her lifelong use of polka dots.  

Published June 2022

  • artist:
    Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) Japanese
  • title:
    Untitled
  • date created:
    About 1965
  • materials:
    Sewn and stuffed fabric, metal tray, spoon, metallic paint
  • measurements:
    31.10 x 50.80 x 36.20 cm; 7.60 x 32.10 x 6.40 cm
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    Purchased with the Henry and Sula Walton Fund, 2022
  • accession number:
    GMA 5756
  • gallery:
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Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama