Japanese flowers adorn Heydar Aliyev Center

/By AzerNews/

By Nigar Orujova

The flowers of the future are now adorning the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku.

The Flowers that Blossom Tomorrow composition (2012) by Yayoi Kusama, an outstanding Japanese artist and a pop legend, is now on a permanent display at the Center from April 4.

The author got a record-breaking attendance for her solo exhibitions in 2014.

An iconic figure in the global world of modern art, Yayoi Kusama got engaged in the abstractionism upon completion of the Art School in Kioto and continued her creative work in New York since 1957.

The artist is highly recognized for her colorful canvases, sculptures and signature polka dot collages and installations. The polka dots even turned into a trademark of her works featuring the garments and accessories she manufactures. This resulted in the foundation of the Kusama Fashion company known for its eccentric models.

Meanwhile, Yayoi Kusama is also recognized as a poetess and an author of surrealistic and fantastic novels. The artist also worked in cinematography.

With more than 50,000 works created to this day, solo exhibitions of Yayoi Kusama, who is 86, enjoy one of the highest attendance levels in the world. The displays of her sketches, statues and installations in Central and South Americas alone brought above 2 million visitors together.

Kusama represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1993, 1998, and 1999.

The artist’s Abstraction No.2 (1959) sold for $5,794,500 at Christie’s New York in 2008 to become the most expensive piece of modern art and the then record for a living female artist.

The work styled Flowers that Blossom Tomorrow placed at the Heydar Aliyev Center is displayed in Azerbaijan for the first time, and is now open to the public.

The center is home to the most extravagant and modern exhibitions in Baku, introducing world cultures to Azerbaijan, as well as Azerbaijani culture to the world.