Creativity? A dazzling hall of mirrors, with pumpkins inside.

It’s a good base for trips into the Japanese Alps (such as the Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route), but in Matsumoto – second largest city in Nagano Prefecture – you can discover one of Japan’s most beautiful original castles. Accommodations (hotels, mountain huts and camp grounds), is available along the route. From mid June, temperatures along the Alpen Route are mild. Yes, you need good walking shoes, really advised if you plan on hiking beyond the easy walking trails along this route, in the land where one of the most famous living Japanese poets was born.

YAYOI KUSAMA has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists, to come out of Japan. Her work, always is based in conceptual art, showing attributes of feminism and surrealism. Her works are exhibited in major museums worldwide (such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo). She was born in Matsumoto (Nagano Prefecture, Japan), becoming avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist. In the latter 1960s, she staged special happenings (such as body painting festivals and fashion shows).

In 1957 she went to the United States, showing large paintings and environmental sculptures, also using mirrors and electric lights. In 1948, she studied Nihonga painting at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, but in the 1950s – frustrated with this Japanese style – she became interested in the European avant-garde. The theme of the journey is told here by a famous Japanese painter, YAYOI KUSAMA. Traveling has always been a desire of the human being, a need rooted in the curiosity of knowing different cultures from those in which we live, learning to see new things with different eyes. At around age ten, she started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs, creating fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils. Her Europe and North America retrospective tour, started at Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid). In 2011, arrived her solo exhibition at Gagosian gallery (Roma) and at Victoria Miro gallery (London).

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