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May 15, 2020 · Kusama exhibited her first Infinity Net paintings in New York in 1959. Employing the minimal repeated gesture of a single touch of the brush, Kusama’s revolutionary paintings responded critically to the emotionally and semiotically charged brushstrokes of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Oct 11, 2022 · Kusama exhibited her first Infinity Nets paintings in New York in 1959. She employed a single brushstroke’s minimal and repeated gesture to create a web or net of infinite strokes. These paintings could be seen as a response to the emotionally and semiotically charged action painting of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, two of her male ...
Yayoi Kusama began painting “Infinity Nets,” the artist’s longest-running series, after moving to New York City in 1958. For Kusama, these abstract works covered in repeated, curved brushstrokes are an essential form of art therapy, inspired in part by her hallucinatory visions.
Yayoi Kusama’s INFINITY-NETS (QRTWE) from 2007 stands as a stunning example of her most iconic series. Rendered in white and light blue, the twisting pattern of her brushstroke envelopes the entire canvas; biomorphic shapes come in and out of focus creating an optically absorbing composition.
Though stemming from a very personal experience, Kusama’s “interminable nets,” later called Infinity Nets, were remarkably prescient to the formal questions of art in the 1960s. Embodying the painterly qualities and the emphasis on process that are characteristic of Abstract Expressionism, these works also echo the restraint and ...
Veiled in a delicate lattice of small loops and curls, Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Nets (BCO) (2013) enthralls with its brilliant white and poetic splendor. Swoops and coils blanket the canvas in a gauzelike web that is at once engulfing and mesmerizing, and the painting’s intricacy of detail beckons us closer. The hypnotic strokes that roll ...
Nov 2, 2017 · The exhibitions will feature sixty-six paintings from her iconic My Eternal Soul series, new large-scale flower sculptures, a polka-dotted environment, and two Infinity Mirror Rooms in the Chelsea locations, and a selection of new Infinity Nets paintings uptown.
