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La Fábrica

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Hardcover, 8 x 9.5 in. / 180 pgs / 180 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 10   

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ISBN 9788410024335 TRADE
List Price: $49.95 CAD $69.95 GBP £44.99

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WORLD Except Spain

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Bilbao, Spain
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, 06/28/24–11/03/24

London, UK
The Hayward Gallery, 06/25

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Yoshitomo Nara

Text by Mika Yoshitake, Shigemi Takahashi, Lucia Agirre.

Yoshitomo Nara

Sweet yet sinister, Nara's paintings of children and animals are beloved the world over for their punchy iconography and punk-rock spirit

This definitive monograph spans 40 years, from 1984 to the present day, in the career of the iconic artist, shedding light on Nara’s conceptual process through paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and installations that reflect his empathetic vision of the world around him. Published in conjunction with the epochal exhibition at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, this eponymous monograph divides Nara’s oeuvre into three chronological periods, beginning with his first artworks created in Japan in the 1980s, in which recurring elements of his personal history appear, such as his family’s house and childlike figures, developed under the influence of artists such as Takeshi Motai. The volume then highlights the artist’s fruitful stay in Germany, where Nara reacted to the isolation imposed by the language barrier while he studied and discovered German Expressionism with A.R. Penck at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and introduced in his production the central characters that would soon be recognized as part of his signature language. Finally, the monograph closes by exploring the work Nara produced after his return to Japan in 2000, presenting an essential selection of his late paintings, drawings, installations and sculptures.
Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959) 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 with potent social implications. Nara creates traditionally crafted art rooted in his childhood and personal history; underground punk, folk and rock music; literature and nature, as well as European and Japanese art history.


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Louisa Elderton

At once saccharine, tense, and surreal

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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/21/2024

The must-have monograph on Yoshitomo Nara

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.” continue to blog


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