{"product_id":"kusama-10","title":"Yayoi Kusama, Eyes, 1989","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAcrylic on canvas, 32×41cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. What the title “Hitomi (Eye)” signifies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe first important aspect of this work is that the title clearly indicates \"eye.\" Throughout her life, Kusama has repeatedly used motifs such as polka dots, nets, repetition, and proliferation. Overseas museum explanations also list dots, nets, and eyes as her repetitive motifs. This means that \"eye\" is not an accidental theme in Kusama's work, but can be read as an important symbol representing seeing\/being seen, consciousness, hallucinations, anxiety, and the blurring of the self's boundaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2. In Kusama's work, the \"eye\" is not merely a part of the face. Yayoi Kusama's expression is deeply connected to her hallucinatory experiences and obsessive sense of repetition from childhood. Her polka dots and nets are not merely decorative; they are described as a visualization of the feeling that the world is broken down into countless units and boundaries are dissolving. From this perspective, it is natural to view the \"eye\" in \"Hitomi (Eye)\" not as part of a human figure, but as a work where the organ of perceiving the world itself is the subject. In other words, it is highly probable that it deals with the instability and excessiveness of \"the act of seeing\" itself, rather than \"what is being seen.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3. The时代性 of 1989. 1989 was a period when Kusama was already undergoing international re-evaluation, with major solo exhibitions held in Oxford and New York in the same year. At this time, Kusama had passed through her early avant-garde experiments and was at a stage where she was presenting her motifs in a clearer, more symbolic form. Therefore, \"Hitomi (Eye)\" can be positioned as a mature painting that condenses Kusama's themes, rather than an experimental work from her younger days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4. What the small size signifies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis work is relatively small at 32×41cm. While Kusama is strongly associated with large-scale mirror rooms and works that encompass entire spaces, in smaller works, the repetition of motifs and the pressure of the gaze can be condensed without escape. If eye forms, polka dots, and repetitive lines are densely arranged on the canvas, this size, in fact, must function as a device that confronts the viewer with visual tension at close range. One of the charms of Kusama's small works is the high psychological pressure and concentration despite the physical smallness of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"Hitomi (Eye)\" can be seen as a work that condenses the themes of repetition, hallucination, and self-obliteration, which Yayoi Kusama has dealt with for many years, into the most direct and symbolic form of an \"eye.\" While polka dots and nets represent cosmic expanse, the \"eye\" represents the subject that perceives that expanse. In other words, this work can be read as representing the struggle between the infinitely expanding world and the consciousness that gazes upon it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e**\"Hitomi (Eye)\"** is a painting that condenses the problems of \"repetition\" and \"perception,\" which Yayoi Kusama explored throughout her life, into the symbolic motif of an eye. The \"eye\" indicated by the title is both the subject that sees and a symbol of the anxiety of being constantly seen by the outside world. On the relatively small canvas, Kusama's characteristic persistent repetition creates intense concentration and psychological tension, connecting the personal inner world with cosmic infinity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"Hitomi (Eye)\", 1989, acrylic on canvas, 32×41cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. What the title “Hitomi (Eye)” signifies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe first important aspect of this work is that the title clearly indicates \"eye.\" Throughout her life, Kusama has repeatedly used motifs such as polka dots, nets, repetition, and proliferation. Overseas museum explanations also list dots, nets, and eyes as her repetitive motifs. This means that \"eye\" is not an accidental theme in Kusama's work, but can be read as an important symbol representing seeing\/being seen, consciousness, hallucinations, anxiety, and the blurring of the self's boundaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2. In Kusama's work, the \"eye\" is not merely a part of the face. Yayoi Kusama's expression is deeply connected to her hallucinatory experiences and obsessive sense of repetition from childhood. Her polka dots and nets are not merely decorative; they are described as a visualization of the feeling that the world is broken down into countless units and boundaries are dissolving. From this perspective, it is natural to view the \"eye\" in \"Hitomi (Eye)\" not as part of a human figure, but as a work where the organ of perceiving the world itself is the subject. In other words, it is highly probable that it deals with the instability and excessiveness of \"the act of seeing\" itself, rather than \"what is being seen.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3. The時代性 of 1989. 1989 was a period when Kusama was already undergoing international re-evaluation, with major solo exhibitions held in Oxford and New York in the same year. At this time, Kusama had passed through her early avant-garde experiments and was at a stage where she was presenting her motifs in a clearer, more symbolic form. Therefore, \"Hitomi (Eye)\" can be positioned as a mature painting that condenses Kusama's themes, rather than an experimental work from her younger days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4. What the small size signifies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis work is relatively small at 32×41cm. While Kusama is strongly associated with large-scale mirror rooms and works that encompass entire spaces, in smaller works, the repetition of motifs and the pressure of the gaze can be condensed without escape. If eye forms, polka dots, and repetitive lines are densely arranged on the canvas, this size, in fact, must function as a device that confronts the viewer with visual tension at close range. One of the charms of Kusama's small works is the high psychological pressure and concentration despite the physical smallness of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"Hitomi (Eye)\" can be seen as a work that condenses the themes of repetition, hallucination, and self-obliteration, which Yayoi Kusama has dealt with for many years, into the most direct and symbolic form of an \"eye.\" While polka dots and nets represent cosmic expanse, the \"eye\" represents the subject that perceives that expanse. In other words, this work can be read as representing the struggle between the infinitely expanding world and the consciousness that gazes upon it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"Hitomi (Eye)\" is a painting that condenses the problems of \"repetition\" and \"perception,\" which Yayoi Kusama explored throughout her life, into the symbolic motif of an eye. The \"eye\" indicated by the title is both the subject that sees and a symbol of the anxiety of being constantly seen by the outside world. 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