Infinity Mirrored Room – A Wish for Human Happiness Calling from Beyond the Universe

Japanese artist and writer Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Matsumoto, Nagano) is a unique voice that art history has restored to her rightful place as a global cultural icon. Over the past seven decades, Kusama has firmly pursued her avant-garde vision and perfected her personal aesthetic, which reflects her philosophy of life. A pioneer and eminent figure in contemporary creation, she sees art as a vehicle for social change, using performance, painting, drawing, sculpture, literature, and her famous immersive installations, the Infinity Mirror Rooms.

Kusama spent her childhood among vast fields of flowers, but it was the Pacific Ocean during her first flight to the US in the late 1950s that inspired her famous Infinity Nets. These paintings, in which small semi-circles painted in a single, deft movement obsessively cover the canvas, create an expressionist pattern of connected networks and dots. These works gradually became more and more monumental until, in 1961, a colossal Infinity Net covered an entire wall of the Stephen Radich Gallery in New York.