奈良美智

Yoshitomo Nara

出版商 : Hayward Gallery Publishing (2025 年 10 月 28 日)

语言 : 英语

精装本 : ‎ 276 页

ISBN-10 : ‎ 1853323829

ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-1853323829

商品重量 : 788 克

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

该书是日本艺术家奈良美智在英国公共机构举办的首次个展的配套书籍。本书横跨艺术家四十年的创作历程，为读者提供了一个独特的机会，让他们沉浸在这位国际知名艺术家的个人和创意世界中。

奈良美智主要是一名画家，他的创作媒介多种多样，包括素描、拼贴、雕塑、装置，其材料包括现成的物品、纸板、木材、石膏、纺织品、陶瓷和玻璃纤维。他以大胆的儿童形象而闻名，这些儿童有着大脑袋和大眼睛，用直视的目光和挑衅的姿态挑战着观众。这些迷人而不祥的角色是奈良建立的更广泛的视觉词汇的一部分，旨在探索和传达家、孤立、韧性、归属感、再生、希望和自由等主题。

本书按主题组织，概述了奈良艺术表现形式的演变和广度。它传达了奈良美智从他在日本和德国的成长经历中汲取的独特美学，以及他持续关注的环境和社会问题，这些都深深植根于他成长的地方——日本北部东北地区的自然环境和社区。记忆如泉涌般贯穿了奈良美智的作品。这与他从流行音乐中获得的灵感相一致，他从小就听流行音乐——美国创作歌手的反战民歌、忧郁布鲁斯，以及后来的华丽摇滚、朋克和新浪潮。

海沃德画廊的展览是毕尔巴鄂古根海姆博物馆和巴登巴登弗里德布尔达博物馆巡回展览的扩展版本。它展出了奈良美智的一组新画作，包括几件新作品。

Accompanies the first UK solo exhibition at a public institution by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Spanning four decades of the artist’s work, it offers readers a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the personal and creative world of this internationally acclaimed artist.

Yoshitomo Nara primarily identifies as a painter while working across a wide range of mediums, such as drawing, collage, sculpture, installation and materials including found objects, cardboard, wood, plaster, textile, ceramic and fibreglass. He is widely known for his bold images of children with large heads and wide eyes that challenge the viewers with their direct gaze and defiant stance. These captivating yet ominous characters are part of a wider visual vocabulary established by Nara to explore and communicate themes of home, isolation, resilience, belonging, regeneration, hope and freedom.

Organised thematically, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution and breadth of Nara’s artistic expression. It conveys Nara’s singular aesthetic drawn from his formative experiences in Japan and his time in Germany, as well as his ongoing environmental and societal concerns, which are deeply rooted in nature and the communities of Japan’s northern Tohoku region, where he grew up. Memories as a continuous flow runs through Nara’s work. This is in parallel with the inspiration he takes from popular music, which he has been listening to since childhood – folk songs by American singer-songwriters featuring antiwar messages, melancholic blues and, later, glam rock, punk and new wave.

The Hayward Gallery presentation is an expanded version of the touring exhibition from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. It features a group of Nara’s most recent paintings, including several new works.

奈良美智1959 年出生于日本青森县弘前市，1987 年毕业于爱知县立艺术大学。1988 年，他移居德国，就读于杜塞尔多夫艺术学院，师从 A.R. 彭克。奈良美智于 1994 年移居科隆，2000 年返回日本。自 1990 年代中期以来，奈良美智的作品在日本国内外均有展出，足迹遍布英国、欧洲、美国、韩国、中国和澳大利亚的博物馆和画廊。

Born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Aomori prefecture, Japan, Yoshitomo Nara graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts in 1987. He moved to Germany in 1988 and enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied under A.R. Penck. Nara moved to Cologne in 1994 and returned to Japan in 2000. Since the mid-1990s, Nara has exhibited throughout Japan and internationally, in museums and galleries in the UK, Europe, the United States, Korea, China and Australia.