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"BRINGING HOME THE CROWN, MATSUMOTO: 2002\nDespite her resurgence in the western world and being chosen to represent her country at the Biennale, back home in Japan, Kusama was still largely resisted. This was until the Matsumoto City Art Gallery was built. In 2002, the space held a Kusama retrospective, uniting over 280 of the artist’s works, and drawing huge floods of Matsumoto residents. This not only sparked important Japanese interest in Kusama, but it also cemented Kusama’s position as one of Japanese art history’s most important revolutionaries. “I was finally able to bring the crown home,” Kusama stated at the reception to the show, to which people almost wept in response.\nAs Lynn Zelevansky, curator of Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-68 (1998), beautifully reflects on Kusama's lost years at the end of Infinity: “Overall her trauma made her withdraw, but what she has always done, she has always angled that process incredibly well. There’s a managing madness about Kusama which is so utterly sane. She has used her trauma to incredibly productive ends.”\nYou can find out more about Kusama – Infinity here"
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