![]() Torre de Málaga, a towering house, was built out of industrial and waste materials collected from the city and included the work 1.2.3.4, Change the History (2007), which Nara painted on site and mounted onto the tower. This installation would anticipate a series of collaborations with the design collective graf, such as Yoshitomo Nara + graf: Torre de Málaga (2007), a site-specific installation at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in Spain. In addition to stuffed animals, sculptures, paintings, and drawings, the artist presented Fountain of Life (2001), a ceramic sculpture featuring running water, and Time of My Life (2001), his “drawing room” installation built out of plywood, lit with bare lightbulbs, and filled with drawings on paper and various ephemera. Read MoreĪ year after Nara’s return to Japan in 2000, his seminal solo exhibition titled I DON’T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME was mounted at the Yokohama Museum of Art and displayed Nara’s extensive multidisciplinary approach to artmaking. Nara’s paintings enact a fleeting presence between the figure and the ground-a result of several layers of paint in subtly varied if subdued pigments that he applies throughout the painting process-in which the figure pops out of or floats in a space that appears to exist outside the constraints of time. This period of time was a pivotal influence on Nara, during which he began synthesizing Japanese and Western popular culture, as seen in Nachtwandern (1994), and when he arrived at his mature style, as seen in Pony Tail (1995) and Haze Days (1998). Yoshitomo Nara graduated from Aichi University of the Arts with a master’s degree in 1987, completing further studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, from 1988 to 1993, before settling in Cologne in 1994. Yoshitomo Nara is a pioneering figure in contemporary art whose signature style-which expresses children in a range of emotional complexities from resistance and rebellion to quietude and contemplation-celebrates the introspective freedom of the imagination and the individual.
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