The must-have monograph on Yoshitomo Nara

Featured spreads are from new release Yoshitomo Nara, published by La Fábrica to accompany the acclaimed retrospective on view now at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, en route to the Hayward Gallery in June 2025. Here, you can see a selection of the artist’s sweet yet sinister paintings and the book’s clean, inviting design. Also of note: the beautiful baby blue cover with strong title graphics and one of Nara’s adorable, yet ever-so menacing children seemingly spotlit in white, her arm oozing just a little bit of blood. “Nara’s gravitation toward the figure of a child is to give voice to those who are universally disenfranchised but also against systems and exploitations of power,” Mika Yoshitake writes. “They are powerful narratives to embolden ‘the weak’ with which the artist himself identifies in his past.”

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Published by La Fábrica, 2024

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