London displays works by traumatized artists

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese woman artist with psychological difficulties.

You can create art out of almost everything. But producing art out of trauma is a phenomenal ability.

Yayoi Kusama

A gallery in the British capital London has staged over 40 artworks by 2 prominent artists from France and Japan.

Pumpkins everywhere! Yayoi Kusama's exhibition at the Victoria Miro Gallery in North London.

Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama both had psychological difficulties in life and underwent treatments for their conditions. But for both artists a means of getting over those traumas was to produce art and create things.

Yayoi Kusama's art named 'Give Me Love'.

They tried to overcome and master their fears and traumas through the act of creation.

Yayoi Kusama's narcissus garden installation at Philip Johnson's Glass House estate in Connecticut, USA.

The exhibit’s co-curator Marina Ruiz Colomer says there are similarities in the works of the 2 artists.

Louise Bourgeois in her home studio in 1974.

Colomer added that both artists had a feminine discourse in their works of art.

Self portrait by Louise Bourgeois, 2007.

They were both profoundly affected by war, for Bourgeois the First World War, and for Kusama the Second.

Louise Bourgeois Cell, (Glass spheres and hands) (1990-1993).

Both were underappreciated back in 50’s and 60’s, but are now credited for empowering a wave of contemporary female artists.

The 'Welcoming Hands' made by Louise Bourgeois.

Bourgeois died at the age of 98 in 2010, while the 87-year-old Kusama still continues her artistic activities.


Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.co.uk

SHARE THIS ARTICLE
Press TV News Roku