Akira Tatehata (Interview), a Japanese art critic and poet, is professor at Tama Art University and lecturer at Tokyo University. Akira Tatehata was the Japanese commissioner for the Venice Biennale in 1993, when Yayoi Kusama represented her country there. He has known the artist and followed her work closely for many years.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has pursued her principal themes of infinity, self-image, sexuality and compulsive repetition since she took the New York art world by storm in the late 1950s with her Infinity Nets –...
