David
Zwirner , Chelsea
Tuesday November 26 2019 - Saturday December
14 2019
One of the
most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Kusama
occupies a unique position within recent art history. Since her early
assimilation of pop art and minimalism in the 1960s, she has created a highly
personal oeuvre that resonates with a global audience. Distinctly recognizable,
her works frequently deploy repetitive elements—such as dots—to evoke both
microscopic and macroscopic universes.
The
exhibition introduces new paintings in the artist’s iconic My Eternal Soul
series. Created in a more intimate format on view for the first time in the
United States, these works are singular explorations of line and form. Minutely
detailed, yet with bold explorations of color, they are at once abstract and
figurative. Framed by the paintings and addressing a similar dialectic is a
large, new floor-based constellation composed of almost a hundred different
stainless-steel elements. Viewers navigate an all-encompassing environment of
organic-looking, cloud-like forms whose reflections envelop its audience and
reinforce an impression of perpetuity and infinity.
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