David Zwirner Gallery - UES
Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Nets…read moreDisplayed: 11/2/17-12/22/17
Researching what I actually saw was necessary for me. Is it possible for someone to sit and paint the teeniest of repetitive patterns on a 28"x35" canvas multiple times, over and over? Why, obviously.
At first, it was hard for me to fathom someone sitting or standing, tirelessly creating such work. But clearly, Yayoi Kusama, the oldest living artist at 88, has been creating these concentration of works the majority of her life. Admiringly, I must add, Yayoi shows whimsy in her art as well as her sense of style, even to this day in her octogenarian years.
Her repetitious canvas works, that can pull in anywhere over $7M USD at auction, provides her audience with visions of obsessive strokes, creating precise curved lines and dots of creativity, over and over again. Each canvas different, yet the same...Nets of Infinity.
David Zwirner's newly renovated Upper Eastside gallery, a restored beauty all its own, had only two other gallery goers when I arrived. There were no lines, no rush, no fuss. So this gave me ample time to sillily envision paintbrush in hand, dipping said brush in acrylic, applying brush to canvas and through this vision replicate her work...Ha! A funny visualization that's not even possible, as there's not an artistic bone in me. But honestly, that's where her hallucinogenic work took me.
Appreciative to have viewed these detailed works of, dare I say again, repetition. Though, I understand her works are no longer on display in NYC. But be sure, Yayoi's art is accessible elsewhere globally.