{"product_id":"yayoi-kusama-festival-of-life-infinity-nets-david-zwirner-new-york-2017","title":"Yayoi Kusama — Festival of Life + Infinity Nets — Exhibition Announcement Card, David Zwirner, New York, 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition announcement card\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 21 × 14.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock; colour studio portrait to recto, exhibition details to verso\u003cbr\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDavid Zwirner\u003c\/a\u003e, New York\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 2 November – 16 December 2017\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with age and storage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for a significant concurrent two-part exhibition by Yayoi Kusama in New York in late 2017. The invitation announced two simultaneous presentations across separate David Zwirner locations: \u003cem\u003eFestival of Life\u003c\/em\u003e in Chelsea and \u003cem\u003eInfinity Nets\u003c\/em\u003e on the Upper East Side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFestival of Life\u003c\/em\u003e brought together sixty-six paintings from Kusama’s \u003cem\u003eMy Eternal Soul\u003c\/em\u003e series alongside immersive \u003cem\u003eInfinity Mirror Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e and large-scale sculptural works. Running in parallel, \u003cem\u003eInfinity Nets\u003c\/em\u003e returned to one of the artist’s foundational bodies of work: monochromatic paintings built through repeated hand-painted gestures accumulating into dense optical fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image reproduced on the front departs from a conventional artwork reproduction and instead presents Kusama inside the environment of her own production. Seated in the studio, surrounded by \u003cem\u003eMy Eternal Soul\u003c\/em\u003e paintings, the distinction between artist, setting, and work begins to collapse. The red wig, patterned dress, and surrounding surfaces seem to operate within the same visual system. Portrait becomes installation; installation becomes self-image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross Kusama’s practice, repetition acts simultaneously as method, psychological structure, and image-making device. Dots, nets, accumulations, and mirrored spaces continuously oscillate between personal compulsion and visual infinity. Rather than depicting a world, the work creates one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an object, the card retains a moment when two major trajectories of Kusama’s practice — recent maximalism and foundational repetition — were presented in parallel. A small printed support carrying the structure of a much larger environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Zwirner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53548409618770,"sku":"KUSAMA-DZ-INV-2017","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kusama_Yayoi._Festival_of_Life_show_invite._2017_front.jpg?v=1779601142","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/yayoi-kusama-festival-of-life-infinity-nets-david-zwirner-new-york-2017","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}