Yayoi Kusama's 70-year career will be marked by her first retrospective exhibition in Israel. The artist's polka dots are easily recognizable. At the age of 92, she is an artist who holds the title of the most frequently celebrated on social networks. Renowned as a radical artist in the 1960s, Kusama has lived in a psychiatric facility in her hometown of Tokyo since 1977 and works in her art studio nearby. In 1968, he declared that "polka dots are the path to infinity" and began painting them on everything from phallic sculptures to human bodies. The retrospective exhibition, arriving from Berlin, will show the growth and development in the style of the red-haired artist over the years. Over 200 paintings, sculptures and installations will be on display. Four of Kusama's famous Infinity Rooms will introduce viewers to her obsession with self-erasure ideas.
Superblue aims to provide artists with space and support them in creating and exhibiting large-scale, innovative works of art that go beyond traditional museums and galleries. These vast, engrossing works are designed to be shared and to promote commitment to important issues, captivate audiences and change their perspectives.
The first art center of the initiative was opened this spring in Miami, in a former industrial building with an area of 50,000 square meters, where the impressive works from the first long-term program were located. Visitors will be able to enjoy James Turrell's enveloping monochrome light installation, the giant soaring clouds and ever-changing interactive color lawn of teamLab, the mirror maze of Es Devlin, and the hanging kinetic sculpture of DRIFT.
Irish-born Francis Bacon, considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was fascinated by animals. He was inspired by his travels to South Africa, domestic dogs, and his vast collection of wildlife guides that filled his studio. The exhibition explores how the artist conveys these interests in his works. Bacon's paintings show raw instinct and emotion, blurring the line between man and beast. Some of his earliest works from the 1930s and 1940s will be exhibited along with world-famous works such as three of his six Chapters. Bacon's latest painting, A Bull Study, painted in 1991 shortly before his death and recently discovered in a private collection, will also be on display.
Although Johannes Vermeer did not have much success in the 17th century, today he is considered one of the greatest artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Only 35 paintings in the world are attributed to the artist. Known for his ability to use light to recreate scenes from middle-class everyday life, Vermeer is most often associated with The Pearl Earring Girl and The Girl Reading a Letter to an Open Window. The second painting is the star of the exhibition and was presented for the first time since its restoration and the removal of the layer of paint that hid Cupid in the background. Dated between 1657 and 1659, the "picture in the picture" was detected by X-rays, and laboratory tests confirmed that the deletion was not made by Vermeer, but decades later. The great find is accompanied by nine other paintings by Vermeer, as well as 50 works by his contemporaries.