NOBODY'S FOOL

-Asia Society Museum


Oh! My God! I Miss you, 2001. The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Purchase, 2004--Asia Society Museum


Make the Road, Follow the Road, 1990. Aomori Museum of Art, 2678. Image courtesy of the artist-Asia Society Museum

Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool is the first major New York exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), and features more than one hundred works ranging from his early career in the 1980s to his most recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and large-scale installations. As one of the leading artists of Japan’s influential Neo Pop art since the 1990s, Nara is well known for his depictions of children and animals. Nara’s cute, though often menacing, children and animals are so readily associated with popular culture, particularly manga comics and animation, that viewers may neglect to contemplate his evocative imagery in depth. His popular appeal masks the serious social and personal dimensions of his work—feelings of helplessness and rage, and a sense of isolation in a hyper-networked society.

The exhibition is organized into the following categories: Isolation, rebellion and music.

At Asia Society Museum through Jan 2, 2011