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Headlines T time Fin is in Word up Phone fashion Stylish sneakers News Archive	Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, 1996.	Yayoi Kusama exhibits Distinguished Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's vibrant, expressive work masks a numbing sadness. Hospitalised for more than twenty years because of mental disorders brought on by childhood traumas, she overcomes her obsessional neurosis by channelling it into striking imagery. The first major UK retrospective of her work in London's Serpentine Gallery, features paintings, watercolours and films all of which explore Kusama's obsession with dots, nets, food and sex. The exhibition's centrepiece, 'The Driving Image', is a troupe of naked mannequins grouped around a table and chairs, all camouflaged in the artist's signature colourful dots. Another work turns a peep show filled with mirrors into an endless kaleidoscopic lightshow. 71-year-old Kusama's work combines Surrealism, Minimalism and Pop Art. Brit Art bad boy Damien Hirst is a long-term admirer. Yayoi Kusama's work can be seen from 26th January at the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2. For enquiries call 0171 298 1515, or visit the Serpentine Gallery's website. An accompanying book to the exhibition is available from Phaidon Press priced £19.95.