Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Children of poor Yoshimoto Nara

In Japan and are popular gadgets of his creations can be found in shops of the most important museums of contemporary art from around the world: this is Yoshimoto Nara, Japanese artist trained in Tokyo.


His illustrations have begun to collect success around the nineties due to their naive charm. His creations depict children adorable but disturbing, and often imbricate weapon as scissors and knives. Although Nara reiterates non-aggressive nature of his subjects, they are somehow threatening to the contrast between the innocence with which images are made and the dark loneliness that marks their expressions.




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