Kusama Yayoi's Yellow Pumpkin 南瓜（黄色）

On the pier since 1994, broken in three by the 2021 typhoon; today it has hooks to keep it safe.

The signature work of Benesse Art Site Naoshima, the art project born in 1985 from the meeting between the publisher Fukutake Tetsuhiko and the island's mayor, which led in 1992 to the opening of Benesse House. Yayoi Kusama made it in 1994 for the exhibition ‘Out of Bounds’. On 9 August 2021 Typhoon No. 9 broke it into three pieces; judged beyond repair, it was rebuilt identical and returned on 4 October 2022. Another Kusama pumpkin, red and walkable inside, stands at Miyanoura port, on the opposite side of the island.

Kagawa

Tsutsuji-so

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