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Nets 37, 1998Acrylic on canvas, 41 × 32.1 cm (16 1/8 × 12 5/8 in.)© Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
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“My nets grew beyond myself and beyond the canvases I was covering with them.”
– Yayoi Kusama
By the late 1990s, Kusama had achieved global recognition, with major exhibitions and retrospectives confirming her position as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art. Works such as Nets 37 demonstrated her ability to continually reinvent her visual language without losing its coherence, adapting the Infinity Net to new scales, palettes, and contexts. What had begun in the 1950s as a radical departure from both Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism had, by this point, matured into a signature style that remained both instantly recognisable and endlessly adaptable.