Infinity Nets OPQR, 2007
Acrylic on canvas
259.1×194 cm (102×76.4 inches)

Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Phillips, New York, Contemporary Art Evening, 10 May 2012, lot 22
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

 

Phillips London: 9 February 2016
GBP 746,500 / USD 1,082,197

Source: Phillips
Yayoi Kusama – 20th Century & Contem… Lot 4 February 2016 | Phillips

 

 

Infinity Nets OPQR captures the dynamic energy and elegiac complexity so present in Yayoi Kusama’s expansive and diverse artistic oeuvre. From a distance, Infinity Nets OPQR appears simply monochrome, yet upon closer inspection, the piece willingly displays the process of its creation, making unmistakably apparent the obsessive persistence and meticulousness with which it was made. A palette of white and grey paint is applied with individual gestures of semi-circular forms that combine to form a net that curves in the same direction, while progressively shifting in different ones. The work appears simultaneously complex yet simple, and ordered, yet disordered. The waves in Infinity Nets OPQR appear before us like a living and endless entity, as though they were making their way beyond the picture plane into the unknown. Darker tones of grey paint have been applied onto the canvas in order for to suggest depth, giving it illusion of movement between the networked waves. The sensation of movement is further accentuated by the thick layers of paint which give the overall canvas a three dimensionality. Infinity Nets OPQR is a captivating work that encapsulates the artist’s personal mythology. Although known to work in a serial manner, Kusama’s consistent revisiting to the Infinity Nets over the last six decades highlights her continual involvement to the recurring motif, which appears to be at the core of her artistry and person.