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
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artist:Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) Japanese
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title:Untitled
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date created:About 1965
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materials:Sewn and stuffed fabric, metal tray, spoon, metallic paint
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measurements:31.10 x 50.80 x 36.20 cm; 7.60 x 32.10 x 6.40 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased with the Henry and Sula Walton Fund, 2022
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accession number:GMA 5756
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gallery:
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most iconic artists of the post-war era. She grew up in Nagano Prefecture, a mountainous region about 130 miles west of Tokyo. As a teenager Kusama was forced to sew for hours on end during her conscription to a military parachute factory during the Second World War. The...