Yayoi Kusama - Pumpkin 1996 (GT)

Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929) is among the most iconic and celebrated artists in the world. Known as the “queen of polka dots” and a pioneer of contemporary Japanese art, she has developed a unique visual language that blends obsession, repetition, and visionary imagination. Her work spans painting, sculpture, immersive installations, and printmaking, exploring themes of infinity, psychological self-portraiture, and the relationship between the individual and the cosmos. Her works are exhibited in the world’s most prestigious museums, including the MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Pumpkin (GT) (1996) belongs to one of the most celebrated series in Kusama’s production: the pumpkins, a subject the artist adopted as her personal emblem since the 1960s. A symbol of strength, vitality, and at the same time fragility, the pumpkin becomes for Kusama a poetic alter ego—an image that is both familiar and universal. In this silkscreen, the sharp contours and modular repetition of polka dots convey the obsessive dimension of her research, transforming a simple fruit into a visual icon of the infinite.