點點女王來了！看草間彌生如何以黑白插圖，
來詮釋她心目中的安徒生童話經典：小美人魚
草間彌生以代表生命無限巨大的網形象深植人心，尤其擅長在空間中以手繪不同的圓點不斷重覆，回應單個圓點與週遭環境相互呼應的創作主題及生命力。她曾說，安徒生童話之於她的意義，等同於她心中的夢，創作小美人魚的故事，對於她而言，是一個良善、無小我的自我回歸過程。
這本《Hans Christian Andersen and Yayoi Kusama: The Little Mermaid》，收錄草間彌生最新完成的系列作品，由丹麥的Louisiana Museum of Modern Art合作出版，書封並印有草間彌生簽名。
Yayoi Kusama's delicate drawings illustrate Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale in this lovely keepsake edition
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” (1839), a story about a girl from the sea who followed her dreams and suffered a disastrous fate on land, is known all over the world
(particularly in its animated incarnation). But the familiar story is brought to new life in this gorgeous edition, a collaboration between the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and artist Yayoi
Kusama.
Paired with Hans Christian Andersen’s original text, the densely patterned, undulating line drawings of Kusama’sLove Forever series (2004–7) conjure up storms in the roiling waves of the ocean, the Little Mermaid’s vast underwater kingdom and her longing to live in the human world. Kusama’s fertile, endlessly repeating forms are an ideal match for the poetic and disturbing universe evoked in the fairy tale; the result is a true collaboration. Kusama’s drawings both illustrate and interpret Andersen’s story, bringing it to terrifying life, and Andersen’s words lend narrative content to Kusama’s landscapes of unblinking eyes, curling tendrils and disembodied profiles.
Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) first left Japan at the age of 28, landing in late 1950s New York. Her oeuvre, now spanning more than 50 years, includes painting, performance, installations and environments, sculpture, film, fashion, design and literary work. She was recently named the world’s most popular artist, based on annual figures reported by The Art Newspaper for global museum attendance in 2014.
