Yayoi Kusama // Nets Infinity, 2000

  • Yayoi Kusama, Nets Infinity, 2000. Acrylic on canvas, 116 × 91.4 cm. A mature Infinity Net painting where obsessive mark-making becomes a meditation on infinity and dissolution.
    Nets Infinity, 2000
    Acrylic on canvas, 116 × 91.4 cm (45 ¾ × 35 ⅞ in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
     
    Executed in 2000, Nets Infinity represents the continuation of one of Kusama’s most iconic and enduring series: the Infinity Nets. First developed in the late 1950s, these obsessive, all-over fields of looping brushstrokes helped to establish her reputation within the international avant-garde and remain central to her artistic identity.
     
    In this canvas, Kusama revisits the net motif with the clarity and assuredness of her mature practice. The rhythmic accumulation of marks transforms the surface into a visual field without beginning or end, inviting the viewer to experience the dissolution of form into infinity. The title Nets Infinity makes explicit what had always been implicit in the series: that each painting is both a personal act of compulsion and a meditation on boundlessness.

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

     – Yayoi Kusama

    By the turn of the millennium, Kusama’s Infinity Nets had become not only a personal anchor but also an internationally recognised symbol of her work. This painting illustrates how she adapted a motif born of psychological necessity into one of the most celebrated expressions of postwar abstraction, bridging her early radical practice with her enduring global legacy.