The Centre Pompidou currently presents the first French retrospective dedicated to the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition shows some 150 works dating from 1949 to 2011. The presentation of Kusama’s work is organized chronologically and divided into two major periods: Her years in New York (1958-1973) and in Japan (1973-2011).

This video takes you on a walk through the exhibition with Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Nets and Accumulations series, happenings and performances, Soft Sculptures, large paintings, environments and recent paintings.

The exhibition runs until January 9, 2012 and will then travel to the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Yayoi Kusama. Retrospective at Centre Pompidou, Paris. October 10, 2011. Video by Christophe Ecoffet.

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