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Back in the spring of 2014, Fausto Gilberti, an Italian artist, author and illustrator, took his children to see an exhibition by fellow Italian artist and wondered how could he help them understand the complicated wild lives and bizarre but fantastic works of important contemporary artists? Combining his experience as an illustrator and author he decided to create artist biography books to make contemporary art more approachable for creative and curious kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The third in the series, Gilberti\u2019s latest \u2013 Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn\u2019t Sorry, is a quirky real life story of one of the most important contemporary Japanese artist of our times. Combining his signature inky black and white figures reduced to bare minimum with a single pop of colour, Gilberti depicts Kusama captivating journey from Japan to America and back. Written in first person, he weaves in Kusama\u2019s passion and love for drawing and her dream of becoming a famous artist to being one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like its predecessors, the book relays the importance of daring to be different, a thought he wants young children to hold on to. Yayoi\u2019s childhood experiences have influenced most of her work. In the book she recalls an incident of how, when she was a little girl, she was in a field of flowers and she had a hallucination where the flowers started talking to her. She felt like she was disappearing or as she calls it \u2018self \u2013 obliterating\u2019 into the field of endless dots. Often referred to as the ‘Princess of Polka Dots’, Yoyoi is famous for her love for pumkins and her different types of art- paintings, sculptures, perfromances and installations, all of them with one thing is common, DOTS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kusama\u2019s work is far-reaching and immersive yet intimate. From being alone and poor, to dealing with mental issues and covering her paintings and herself in a million dots, Gilberti in his latest brings to life Kusama\u2019s self transformation and persistence in the simplest way possible. A lesson we can all take some inspiration from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dots are everywhere and all around us. Like the blinking traffic lights down the road which tell us when it is safe to pass through or the ones in the drawing books you had as kid, where you join the dots to create something, like a pumpkin maybe? And of course, the ones that we love to wear- the polka blouses and dresses or Damien Hirst\u2019s most iconic \u2013Spot paintings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dots are a part of our lives. They might be just circles, with no end and no beginning and but we love running in circles and whilst we are running we might as well as add some colour to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine a world without art – colourless and unimaginative. Like a life without a soul… Art in many forms is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":71146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[1080,14605,15,9630],"features_issues":[],"featured_themes":[14526],"ppma_author":[16788],"class_list":["post-71136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-literature","tag-childrens-book-illustrator","tag-fausto-gilberti","tag-literature-2","tag-yayoi-kusama","featured_themes-linear"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/yayoi-husama-covered-everything-EN-6080-spread05.jpg?resize=580%2C325\")
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