Yayoi Kusama // Infinity (TWXOB), 2014

  • Yayoi Kusama, Infinity-Nets (TWXOB), 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 130.5 × 130.5 cm. A late Infinity Net painting where obsessive mark-making becomes a meditation on infinity and self-dissolution.
    Infinity-Nets (TWXOB), 2014
    Acrylic on canvas, 130.5 × 130.5 cm (51⅜ × 51⅜ in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama.  Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only. 
     
    Painted in 2014, Infinity-Nets (TWXOB) demonstrates the remarkable longevity and adaptability of Kusama’s most celebrated series. Originating in New York in the late 1950s, the Infinity Nets quickly established her as a leading figure in postwar abstraction. Over six decades later, Kusama continued to revisit the motif, proving its inexhaustible potential as a vehicle for her themes of obsession, repetition, and infinity.
     
    The square format of this canvas intensifies its immersive effect. Layers of delicate, overlapping arcs dissolve into a hypnotic field of rhythm and motion, blurring distinctions between figure and ground. The surface conveys both intimacy and monumentality, reflecting Kusama’s lifelong preoccupation with the dissolution of self into infinite space

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

     – Yayoi Kusama

    By 2014, Kusama was not only a globally recognised artist but also a cultural icon, with her exhibitions attracting record audiences and her motifs crossing into fashion, design, and popular culture. Works such as Infinity-Nets (TWXOB)reaffirm how a single motif, born of personal hallucination and psychological compulsion, evolved into a universal language capable of bridging time, geography, and audience.