Yayoi Kusama // Infinity Nets (ENNO), 2011

  • Yayoi Kusama, Infinity-Nets (ENNO), 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 130.2 × 130.2 cm. A large Infinity Net painting where obsessive repetition becomes a meditation on infinity and self-dissolution.
    Infinity-Nets (ENNO), 2011
    Acrylic on canvas, 130.2 × 130.2 cm (51¼ × 51¼ in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
     
    Executed in 2011, Infinity-Nets (ENNO) continues Kusama’s lifelong exploration of her most iconic motif. The Infinity Nets, first conceived in the late 1950s, established her reputation as a pioneer of postwar abstraction and remain a cornerstone of her practice. Over the decades, Kusama has returned to the motif again and again, each time imbuing it with fresh intensity and resonance.
     
    In this large-format canvas, overlapping arcs create a dense, hypnotic field of repetition that both engulfs the viewer and invites meditative reflection. The surface dissolves into an endless weave, blurring the distinction between figure and ground and embodying Kusama’s central themes of obsession, accumulation, and infinity.

  • “My nets grew beyond myself and beyond the canvases I was covering with them. They began to cover the walls, the ceiling, and finally the whole universe.”

     
     – Yayoi Kusama
    By 2011, Kusama was celebrated worldwide, with her exhibitions drawing record audiences and her motifs recognised as cultural icons. Works such as Infinity-Nets (ENNO) show how the series, once radical in its emergence, had evolved into a mature and enduring language of boundlessness, connecting the deeply personal origins of her hallucinations with the universal scale of the cosmos.