Estimate
TWD 9,000,000-15,000,000
HKD 2,233,000-3,722,000
USD 284,600-474,400
CNY 2,018,000-3,363,000
Sold Price
Signature
Signed on the reverse yayoi Kusama, titled Infinity-Nets in Kanji and English and dated 1996
This lot is to be sold with a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio
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Yayoi Kusama
Infinity-Nets
As Yayoi Kusama developed her "Infinity-Nets" series, she gradually began to pay attention to the spaces between lines and turned them into circles, which eventually evolved into her world-famous polka dots. Yayoi Kusama re-examines her early creation series, which can indeed better unleash the infinite feeling of the universe both in terms of ideas and visual. In this piece, Kusama emphasis the visual focus on the dots, the net line that used to be the main body suddenly turns into a negative space. She turns the universe around her into circles of dots, as she said: "The polka dot has the shape of the sun and is a symbol of the world and vitality. Simultaneously it also bears the shape of the moon, exuding a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere. Circular, soft, colorful, unknowing, elusive, the polka dot becomes a kind of movement, unmistakably is the way to infinity."
The “Infinity-Nets” is in rare purple and blue. The geometric elements of dots and reticles though are simple yet full of energy. In the infinite repetition, each represents the artist’s persistence in each stroke. In this Infinite series of works from Yayoi Kusama, endless replicating patterns convey an obsession and perseverance which are almost neurotic like, the artist uses patterns that are constantly reproduced under her brushstrokes to display the endless beauty that across all borders.
Yayoi Kusama takes self-dissolving as the main concept, and carries out infinitely extended creations. Her creations are scattered all over the world, contributing Yayoi Kusama's infinite dots and reticles spread out in everywhere. These self-absorbing creations originate from the hallucinations that Yayoi Kusama started experiencing since childhood, because of the fear in dots that proliferate in the hallucinations, hence she carries out the same endless artistic creations as her hallucinations, in the hope of trying to free herself from. When Yayoi Kusama's self-dissolving dots fill out the object and space, the object then takes up the space, the boundary of the object, the border of the space, the edge of the world, and the limitation of the dots seem to be no longer definite.
Infinity-Nets
As Yayoi Kusama developed her "Infinity-Nets" series, she gradually began to pay attention to the spaces between lines and turned them into circles, which eventually evolved into her world-famous polka dots. Yayoi Kusama re-examines her early creation series, which can indeed better unleash the infinite feeling of the universe both in terms of ideas and visual. In this piece, Kusama emphasis the visual focus on the dots, the net line that used to be the main body suddenly turns into a negative space. She turns the universe around her into circles of dots, as she said: "The polka dot has the shape of the sun and is a symbol of the world and vitality. Simultaneously it also bears the shape of the moon, exuding a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere. Circular, soft, colorful, unknowing, elusive, the polka dot becomes a kind of movement, unmistakably is the way to infinity."
The “Infinity-Nets” is in rare purple and blue. The geometric elements of dots and reticles though are simple yet full of energy. In the infinite repetition, each represents the artist’s persistence in each stroke. In this Infinite series of works from Yayoi Kusama, endless replicating patterns convey an obsession and perseverance which are almost neurotic like, the artist uses patterns that are constantly reproduced under her brushstrokes to display the endless beauty that across all borders.
Yayoi Kusama takes self-dissolving as the main concept, and carries out infinitely extended creations. Her creations are scattered all over the world, contributing Yayoi Kusama's infinite dots and reticles spread out in everywhere. These self-absorbing creations originate from the hallucinations that Yayoi Kusama started experiencing since childhood, because of the fear in dots that proliferate in the hallucinations, hence she carries out the same endless artistic creations as her hallucinations, in the hope of trying to free herself from. When Yayoi Kusama's self-dissolving dots fill out the object and space, the object then takes up the space, the boundary of the object, the border of the space, the edge of the world, and the limitation of the dots seem to be no longer definite.
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