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Infinity Nets

Infinity Nets

Yayoi Kusama
Japanese, born 1929
1951
An ink-on-paper drawing in which Kusama fills a narrow vertical field with countless tiny, hand-drawn rectangular marks to evoke an obsessive, seemingly endless rhythm.
At first glance a towering, tapestry-like column of irregular grid marks appears to shimmer and breathe as your eye traces the subtle swerves, gaps, and changes in density across the page.
An early example of Kusama’s repetitive mark-making, this work channels personal compulsion into a visual system that prefigures her immersive Infinity Net environments and helped link postwar Japanese avant-garde practices with developments in Minimalism and Conceptual art.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
15 1/2 x 10 1/8" (39.4 x 25.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Accession
785.2006
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