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February 9th, 2010
Issey Miyake- jeux de tissu performance by Yayoi Kusama on A-POC King and Queen- 2000 (Friedmann Hauss)
In 2000 Kusama worked alongside Issey Miyake putting her signature dots on Miyake A-POC fabric.
About Kusama“Yayoi Kusama is perhaps Japans most famous living artist. From her groundbreaking work in New York in the 1950s and 60s, when she evolved unique abstract minimalist ‘net paintings,’ Pop Art soft sculptures, and participated in wild, psychedelic ‘happenings’, involving nudity and polka dots, to her more recent work, creating mind-boggling installations and art environments, she has always been at the cutting edge.” NY Arts-February, 2005
About Miyake“A recurring source of inspiration for Miyake has been his fundamental concept of using a single piece or cloth (A-POC) to make garments, a springboard to which he has often returned. The A-POC items at the exhibition reveal recent improvisations on this theme. There is something a little eerie, even ghostly, about the garments in the “A-POC King & Queen” section as they spill from the feet of the mannequins yet also stretch up to the ceiling, as if the human form itself were melting. Is it possible that one source of inspiration for the artist was the atomic bomb that devastated his Hiroshima hometown as the 7-year-old Issey was riding his bicycle to school? It seems unlikely for such objects of beauty, but then Miyake has always been inspired by raw elemental forces: the wind, the rain, and fire.”
Tokyo Journal -May 2000
Photo from Claire Wilcox : Radical Fashion