Infinity Nets [BRST], 2016
Acrylic on canvas
145.5×112 cm (57.2×44 inches)
Signed, titled and dated ‘INFINITY-NETS BRST YAYOI KUSAMA 2016’ (on the reverse)

 

Provenance
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Private collection, Asia
Acquired from the above by the present owner

 

Christie’s New-York: 13 November 2019
USD 1,455,000

Source: Christie’s
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) (christies.com)

 

Infinity Nets [BRST] is a visually complex and deeply moving example of Yayoi Kusama’s ongoing Infinity Net series. Through Infinity Nets [BRST], Kusama illustrates her ability to transform her canvas into a topographic net, resembling an ocean where the horizon is expansive and nonexistent. Infinity Nets [BRST] possesses a transcendental and geographical quality. Circular shapes emanate in all directions, causing the eye to move delicately within the work itself. Like the skin of a California King Snake, black and white forms are juxtaposed in a gradient, creating a sense of luminosity atop the shimmering, sequined surface.

Infinity Nets [BRST] invites open-mindedness, granting viewers the ability to contemplate the ways in which they move with the work and where the work takes their mind. This difference is particularly apparent in Infinity Nets [BRST] where the dots and cell-like clusters are no longer uniform, nor evenly sized and spaced. Rather, all elements are in motion, pulsating and evolving in a symphonic and exquisite manner. The rectilinear composition of the canvas seemingly confines the forms within its four corners, anchoring the beautiful, rippling chaos. One can envision the forms breaking free from the bounds of the canvas, released and uninhibited, expanding off into the universe to veil its surroundings in a cloud-like haze.