Infinity Nets Q.N.I, 1989
Acrylic on canvas
162×130 (63.7×51.2 inches)
Signed ‘Yayoi Kusama’ in English; dated ‘1989’
Titled ‘Infinity Nets Q. N. I’ in English (on the reverse)

 

Provenance
Private Collection, Asia

 

Christie’s Hong-Kong: 27 November 2015
HKD 7,000,000 / USD 903,144

Source: Christie’s
YAYOI KUSAMA (JAPANESE, B. 1929) (christies.com)

 

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after moving back to Japan, Kusama returned to painting with a new dynamism and on a scale unmatched since the Infinity Nets of the early 1960s. Painted in 1989, Infinity Nets Q.N.I inexorably explores the lyricism of the individual mark that fills Kusama’s canvas with rich palette of bright colors. Streams of black weaves in a mesmerizing geometrical structure similar to quasicrystal, suspended in the space of green background that glows with a sumptuous radiance. The visually evocative composition telescopes a gamut of biological forms, from an astrophysical landscape to a microcosm of cells, in a series of poetic correspondences. Forsaking a single fixed focal point, it is rendered compositionally ahierarchical. An endless expansion of visual field seems to linger on the threshold of our perception. It exudes tranquility and equilibrium, wielding a hypnotic enchantment upon the viewer’s gaze.