The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 26, 2024
Infinity Nets AB
1994
(Japanese, 1929-)
printer
(Japanese, 1934–2014)
Image: 17.8 x 11.6 cm (7 x 4 9/16 in.); Sheet: 24.8 x 17.9 cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Lewis J. Greenwald 2022.127
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Kusama’s two-dimensional “Infinity Nets” went on to inspire the obsessive, sometimes hallucinatory qualities in the artist’s three-dimensional, interactive works for which she is best known.Description
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Nets AB is part of a large body of work in which the artist plays with the notion of infinite repetition and infinite space. Using an allover mark-making method, she collapses the distinction between figure and ground, giving equal weight to both the lines, and the holes within them. Starting in the late 1950s, Kusama employed this type of mark making as a form of catharsis, and continued with the series through the 1990s, when this etching was made.- ?-2022Lewis Greenwald, New York, NY, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHSeptember 12, 2022-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Kusama, Yayoi. Yayoi Kusama: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1979-2013. Tokyo: Abe Publishing, 2013, cat. 198
- {{cite web|title=Infinity Nets AB|url=false|author=Yayoi Kusama, Kimura Kihachi|year=1994|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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