Festas de Lisboa
Kusama and Warhol: POP’s greatest rip-off
The play “Kusama and Warhol: POP’s greatest rip-off” revolves around the psychological state of artist Yayoi Kusama and her obsession with the repetition of patterns and images, an idea introduced in the 1960s by the Japanese artist which was later reproduced by Andy Warhol, revolutionising the history of pop art. The rivalry between them was a feature of the massification movement of popular capitalist culture, pop art. This is a multilingual show (performed in Portuguese, Spanish, English and Japanese), which defends hybridism as the vanguard in an era marked by the end of art and dialogue with the cinematic imagery of Tim Burton.