Yayoi Kusama // Dawn (120), 1989

  • Yayoi Kusama, Dawn (120), 1989. Screenprint, 52.8 × 45.5 cm, edition of 100. Features Kusama’s bold use of colour and patterned forms, reflecting her distinctive style in late 1980s printmaking.
    Dawn (120), 1989
    Screenprint, 52.8 × 45.5 cm (20 4/5 × 17 9/10 in.), Edition of 100
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    Yayoi Kusama’s Dawn (120) (1989) is a screenprint measuring 52.8 × 45.5 cm, produced in an edition of 100. The work reflects Kusama’s ability to transform moments of natural transition into symbolic and abstract compositions. With bold colour and rhythmic design, she captures the sense of a world shifting from darkness into light, evoking both serenity and intensity.
     
    Rather than offering a literal depiction of sunrise, Dawn (120) presents the event as a field of pattern and energy. Kusama distils the atmosphere of early morning into stylised forms, suggesting cycles of renewal, continuity, and infinity. The work highlights her interest in repetition as a means of expressing both personal psychology and universal rhythm.
     
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  • “My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of the unbounded universe, from my own position in it, with dots.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    As with many of her editioned works from the late 1980s, Dawn (120) demonstrates Kusama’s ability to merge the natural world with her unique visual language. The print is both a meditation on time and a reflection of her broader themes of obsession, transformation, and the boundless possibilities of perception.