Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959, Japan) is one of the best-known Japanese artists of his generation; his characteristic portraits of adorable, enigmatic, or threatening childlike figures have become revered icons, becoming even distinctive in some social manifestations, proof of the activism and concerns that have characterized the artist from the beginning. Nara creates traditionally crafted art rooted in his childhood and personal history, underground punk, folk, and rock music, literature, nature, and European and Japanese art history.
This exhibition covers his entire career, beginning with his first artworks created in Japan in the 1980s, in which recurring elements of his personal history appear, such as the house and his first childlike figures, under the influence of other artists, such as Takeshi Motai.
