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"Yoshitomo
Nara "
Born
in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan, Yoshitomo Nara is one of the
most influential artists to emerge from Japan during the
Pop art movement of the nineties. Yoshitomo Nara's paintings
and sculpture of stylized cartoon children and animals evoke
a range of memories from childhood, "both sad and fantastic."
Since his initial U.S. solo exhibition at Blum & Poe
Gallery he has had one-man shows at the Institut fur Moderne
Kunst Nurnberg, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
and the Yokohama Museum of Art. His work was recently included
in "Super Flat" at the MOCA Gallery at the Pacific
Design Center in West Hollywood and at PS1 Contemporary
Art Center in New York. He continues to live and work in
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"Slash
with a Knife"
Yoshitomo
Nara's work is influenced by Japanese comic books (manga)
but he is unique in the contemporary art scene here for
bedeviling his typically cute and vulnerable figures with
a horror like image. Nara's tapping into horror through
the medium of the innocent child is particularly poignant
in Japan's controlled society of rigid language and social
structures, especially considering recent shockingly violent
crimes in Japan involving children as the aggressors. Nara's
work really instills the viewer with a juxtaposition of
the innocence of children and the evil nature of humanity,
or the fall from grace. Nara is also a Pop artist, representing
works from his generations youth, and mass producing them
for your home.
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Pup
Cup
Yoshitomo Nara |
Little
Wanderer
Yoshitomo Nara |
Nara
Dish | Ashtray
10" Diameter
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Nara "Walk
On" Clock
Flip Clock!
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