Tadanori Yokoo: From the shadows within
The blotchy, salty self-portrait that confronts you as you enter Tadanori Yokoo's exhibition of recent work "B29 and Homeland: From My Childhood to Andy Warhol" (2018) has a hangman's noose in the top left corner. This recalls one of the artist's most renowned works, ...
Japan's artistic rebels of the 1980s
While nothing so much as an epochal rupture occurred, 1980s' artists in Japan were reactive to the lingering concerns of the '70s — in that decade, oil painting and sculpture were mostly passe, while modernism appeared exhausted.
'Tadanori Yokoo: Complete Drawings for Genka (Fantasy Flowers) by Jakucho Setouchi'
Dec. 12-March 27 With a focus on Tadanori Yokoo's illustrations for the 1976 historical novel "Genka (Fantasy Flowers)" by the writer and Buddhist nun Harumi (Jakucho) Setouchi, this special exhibition introduces viewer to some unusual monotone works. Yokoo is best known for using vivid colors in ...
Photographer Kishin Shinoyama's book of images "Kioku no Enkinjutsu," which he began in 1968, documents the graphic designer, illustrator and painter Tadanori Yokoo dressed as, and posing with, his personal idols. Yokoo would wear matching or near-identical outfits to his celebrity partner, sometimes even impersonating ...
Tadanori Yokoo: An artist by design
In conversation, Tadanori Yokoo jumps nimbly between the past and the present. One moment he's watching the sky glow red as bombs rain down on Kobe during World War II. The next he's riding in a taxi with Yukio Mishima. And then he's back ...
