3 artists to follow if you like Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is one of the artists most important of our time, which has been dazzling the public with its immersive installations “Infinity Mirror Rooms” with an aesthetic that embraces light, polka dots and pumpkins. A artist The avant-garde came to prominence in the 1960s in New York, where she staged provocative Happenings and exhibited hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots that she called “Infinite Networks”. Yayoi Kusamain influenced several artists such as Andy Warhol and foreshadowed the rise of feminist art and pop. Discover three artists from the P55.ART with a language close to Yayoi Kusama.
Manuel Terán
Manuel Terán, artist plastic, painter, offers the spectator a set of different tributes to contemporary geniuses, such as Yayoi Kusama. He has exhibited in Milan, Santiago de Chile, Murcia, Madrid, Toledo, Valencia, Cuenca. The most recent project, Retrato Capital, was launched at Fundación Caja Madrid (Espacio para el Arte, Madrid) and art galleries in Madrid, Bilbao, León and Pamplona. Since 2000, Manuel Terán works with digital art in projects of digital naturalness in collaboration with other artists, focusing on the field of aesthetics and the creation of hybrid supports for creation. The latest work in the multidisciplinary creation area of the ÓRBITA project centers its interests on the coherence of the use of new technologies, investigating supports and recent technological programs for its diversification. He currently resides in Spain and works on an IDCOM short film project and as art director for Intact01, Interfaz.
Dino Gonçalves
Contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is known for her excessive use of polka dots and her large number of art installations. Like a Japanese artist, Dino Gongalves introduces the famous balls into his works. Such works explore the physical and psychological limits of painting, with the endless repetition of the marks, creating an almost hypnotic sensation for the spectator and the artist.
Luis Gordillo
Luis Gordillo influenced the work of many of the artists belonging to later generations but was simultaneously influenced by the pop art, which offered him new and important plastic means of expression. The configuration of his own aesthetics is accompanied, in parallel, by his interest in proposing new discourses based on his knowledge and interest in psychoanalysis, cinema and music. His trajectory, always marked by continuous experimentation, as well as the change of record in his production. The use of different media leads him to develop a parallel universe where, overcoming abstraction, references to reality, or parts of it, coexist with imagined, totally abstract, symbolic or narrative elements on the same plane. In short, a language of its own, rich and complex, where it repeatedly captures its obsessions and uncertainties, like a mental cartography. Proof of the importance of his work are the awards he received over all the years of his professional career. the work of Luis Gordillo it has been individually exhibited internationally both in Museums, Centers and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Spain, Germany, Mexico, France, Brazil and the United States. Among his numerous exhibitions, "Tropical Iceberg" at MNCARS (Madrid, Spain) and at the Kunst Museum (Bonn, Germany) stand out, the largest retrospective of his work to date, together with a magnificent publication that includes a personal trip analyzed by the artist himself.
