Infinity Nets [KUPP]

Yayoi Kusama

Soon after her arrival in New York in 1958, Kusama began a series that she referred to as Infinity Nets, an important body of work that encompasses paintings, soft sculptures, collages, films, and installations. Her acclaimed all-white, patterned, and monochromatic Infinity Nets paintings allude to the artist’s hallucinations of being overcome by endless netting. The paintings’ minutely rendered and repetitive forms are invisible when viewed at a distance, inviting the viewer to approach and experience an individual, private interaction. The series—which shares some stylistic features with the work of the then-emerging American Pop and Minimal art movements and European groups such as Zero—quickly brought Kusama to the attention of the New York avant-garde, and won her the recognition of artists such as Donald Judd, with whom she developed a close friendship.

Artist
Yayoi Kusama (b.1929)
Medium
Infinity Nets [KUPP]
Title
Acrylic on canvas
Date
2016
Size
38 ¼ x 51 ¼ in: 97.2 x 130.2 cm
Inscriptions
Signed, titled and dated verso
Provenance
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Reference
AC19-41
Status
No Longer Available

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