Yayoi Kusama // Nets - Infinity, 2004

  • Yayoi Kusama, Nets – Infinity, 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 161.9 × 161.9 cm. A large-scale Infinity Net painting reflecting Kusama’s obsession, repetition, and meditation on infinity.
    Nets – Infinity, 2004
    Acrylic on canvas, 161.9 × 161.9 cm (63¾ × 63¾ in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
     
    Executed in 2004, Nets – Infinity represents the continuation of Kusama’s most defining series, the Infinity Nets. First developed in New York during the late 1950s, these all-over paintings of looping brushstrokes established her reputation within the international avant-garde and remain among her most celebrated contributions to postwar abstraction.
     
    In this large square-format canvas, Kusama transforms the surface into a vast field of rhythm and repetition, where the dense layering of arcs dissolves any sense of beginning or end. The painting embodies her central themes of obsession, self-dissolution, and infinity, drawing the viewer into a space that is at once meditative and overwhelming.

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

     – Yayoi Kusama

    Nets – Infinity reflects Kusama’s lifelong pursuit of boundlessness through repetition. Each looping brushstroke is both a mark of compulsion and a gesture toward the infinite, dissolving the edges of the canvas and drawing the viewer into an unending field. For Kusama, the act of painting nets was never purely aesthetic but a way of channelling her inner visions into a language that could express the scale of the cosmos as well as the depths of the mind.