PROVENANCE:
Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
This painting is to be sold with a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio.

Yayoi Kusama returned to her Infinity Nets series in 2005, and although the canvases now lack the mammoth scale of her previous works, the ideal of capturing the beauty of the infinite remains. Kusama has refined her aesthetic, and the new Infinity Nets display a greater sense of harmony and clarity of vision, as seen in Golden-Nets XTWPEO. Vibrant orange gives subtlety and depth to the brilliantly golden canvas, as swirls and swells take form through expertly placed daubs of acrylic. More reminiscent of her now famous dots, Kusama employs thickly-layered blots of paint in lieu of the thinly-painted lines of her earlier Infinity Nets, creating an eddying pointillist abstraction of a gilded boundless landscape, allowing the viewer to enter and experience the wash of sensation and emotion which emanates from the radiant canvas. Golden-Nets XTWPEO epitomizes Kusama’s intentions for the series, as she explains, “My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of the unbounded universe, from my own position in it.” In Golden-Nets XTWPEO, Kusama creates a whirling cosmos awash with the brilliant light of a myriad stars. Though lacking a focal point, Golden-Nets XTWPEO arrests attention, and provides the opportunity for visual exploration as the viewer’s eye moves harmoniously over the canvas, discovering subtle spirals and undulating waves in the daubed details of the nuanced painted layers.