Yayoi Kusama // Infinity Nets (RAZX), 2011

  • Yayoi Kusama, Infinity-Nets (RAZX), 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 162 × 162 cm. A large Infinity Net painting that embodies Kusama’s themes of obsession, repetition, and infinity.
    Infinity-Nets (RAZX), 2011
    Acrylic on canvas, 162 × 162 cm (63¾ × 63¾ in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
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    Executed in 2011, Infinity-Nets (RAZX) continues Kusama’s most iconic series, a body of work she began in New York in the late 1950s. The Infinity Nets marked a breakthrough in her career, establishing her as a major force in postwar abstraction. Over half a century later, Kusama’s return to the motif demonstrates its inexhaustible potential, as each painting becomes both a personal act of obsessive mark-making and a meditation on boundlessness.
     
    The large square format of Infinity-Nets (RAZX) intensifies the immersive quality of the work. Layers of interlocking arcs dissolve the surface into a vast expanse without beginning or end, drawing the viewer into an experience that is at once intimate and cosmic. The repetition of forms embodies Kusama’s central themes of self-dissolution, infinity, and psychological compulsion, transforming the act of painting into a reflection on both inner life and universal continuity.

  • “I paint nets to try to escape from my obsessional neurosis, but they also express the infinity of the universe.”

     – Yayoi Kusama

    Works such as Infinity-Nets (RAZX) connect that cultural prominence back to the very origins of her practice, showing how the net motif, first born from her hallucinations in the 1950s, continued to serve as the foundation of her art more than half a century later. What began as a radical gesture of endless mark-making on canvas evolved into a defining language that bridged decades, geographies, and contexts. Through the Infinity Nets, Kusama unified the personal and the universal, demonstrating how a deeply individual vision could achieve global resonance and become one of the most enduring symbols in contemporary art.