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Indepth Arts News:
"Walk On, Works by Yoshitomo Nara"
2000-03-18 until 2000-06-25
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Chicago, IL,
USA United States of America
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara will
present a startling large-scale
sculptural installation created
especially for the MCA, as well as a
selection of new drawings and a
recent painting. The sculptural work,
titled The Little Pilgrims (Night
Walking), is comprised of fifty
fiberglass sculptures of stylized
children clad in brightly painted
costumes.
Culled from his
menagerie of imaginary characters,
these three-foot tall sleepwalkers
have a gauze-like cloth surface.
Visitors entering the museum will
encounter a mass of
three-dimensional characters
swarming the walls - a strange yet
enchanting, surreal vision. Born in
Aomori, Japan, in 1959, and currently living and working in Cologne,
Germany, and Nagoya, Japan, Nara is part of a generation of young
Japanese artists whose works are informed by Japanese popular
culture, primarily manga (comics) and television animation. Recently
his work has been included in such group exhibitions as Art/Domestic:
Temperature of the Time at the Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1999,
and The Manga Age at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, in
1998.
This exhibition is curated by Associate Curator Staci Boris.
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