Tate Modern Yayoi Kusama

We traveled to Paris for three days last year, I will talk more about it in the future but now I want to talk about one single exposition when we were there.
We went to Pompidou Museum (One unbelievable place) and we had the opportunity to see the exposition of Yayoi Kusama and now this exposition is in Tate Modern Museum in London.
We went to Tate today because i thought the exposition was free admission, but it wasn't, so we decided to not see the exposition again and bought the book about the artist by Frances Morris.
The story of the life of this artist is suffering but for me what was transmitted was madness in the sense of happiness she works basically with colorful dots and afterwards she develops an new idea about accumulations.

The accumulations of the life: she shows notes of money, tickets, phalluses... this exposition is from 1960. So she was a woman, an artist, a revolutionary, Japanese and transformed her mental ilness into amazing instalations trying to show us her hallucinations.
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In the mid to late 1960s, when her solo public performances expanded into participatory happenings. A product of the postwar Avant-garde, which almost immediately crossed over into popular culture, or at least underground counter culture, happenings developed as unconventional performance events increasingly relying on audience reaction and direct participation. Kusama’s happenings, known as ‘body festivals’ — or ‘orgies’, as they were often sensationally reported in the mainstream press — typically provided platforms for spontaneous and improvisatory behaviour within conceptual and aesthetic frameworks determined by the artist. Often involving public nudity — the artist hoped to contrast the beauty of the youthful human body with the violence of the US–Vietnam War — they challenged prevailing moral frameworks.
Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a desire to escape from psychological trauma. In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessively charged vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space.

from Tate Modern site.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/yayoikusama/default.shtm

Polka dots, the trademark of “Kusama Happening”. Red, green and yellow polka dots can be the circles representing the earth, the sun, or the moon. Their shapes and what they signify do not really matter. I paint polka dots on the bodies of people, and with those polka dots, the people will self-obliterate and return to the nature of the universe.
An excerpt from “Infinity Nets”, from Kusama Yayoi Autobiography