YOSHITOMO NARA & HIROSHI SUGITO: Over the Rainbow HC Book **NEW**

Description: YOSHITOMO NARA (b. 1959, Japan) & HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (b. 1948, Japan), 'Over The Rainbow', 2005 Artist Hardbound Book by Yoshitomo Nara (Author), Hiroshi Sugito (Author). Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers, Germany, 2005. Hardbound, 112 pp., illus. Dimensions: 10-5/8" x 9-3/4" x 5/8". Weight: 1-3/4 lbs. Mint Condition (Collector's Edition - NO S/N PRINT). Manga meets Pop meets Zen in Over the Rainbow, the first combined presentation of Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito--close friends and stars of the Japanese contemporary art scene. Nara, born in 1959, is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly conceivable for European artists to reach. His signature paintings and drawings of children, often sporting grim gazes, that which recall the tradition of popular Japanese mangas, are among the most sought out items on the international art scene.His former student, Sugito, born in 1970, has also enjoyed great popularity in Japan. Sugito's delicate, finely-painted works are more subtle than Nara's and combine influences of Eastern and Western painting. The two artists completed the first of their joint works in 1997, and developed the idea for a joint exhibition and book project, Over the Rainbow, that same year.Eventually, in the summer of 2004, their goal was realized when Nara and Sugito were invited by the Austrian Galerie Belvedere to live and work in Vienna for three months. Over the Rainbow documents their visit: included are images of the artists at work, and the paintings and drawings that resulted from their collaboration. Since the mid-1990s, Japanese born artist Yoshitomo Nara has become known for this playful yet bold images, his mindfulness in determining how and where his art will be seen and for the close personal connection to his art’s creation. Nara selects colors that breathe life into his figures; his sculptures bear traces of his fingers, and the spontaneity of his drawings are born of a daily discipline of experimentation. Born in Aomori, Japan, in 1959, Yoshitomo Nara is part of a generation of young Japanese artists whose works are primarily based in Japanese pop culture - manga (comics) and television animation. He combines high and low art by painting cartoon-like children with a skilled brush and a complex palette. Nara's children, influenced by comic book characters, are at once innocent and demonic. The big, rounded heads contain glaring eyes, and their bodies often take on a defiant stance. Roberta Smith of The New York Times states, '(The paintings) undermine the tendency to idealize and infantilize children by suggesting that they are smarter, meaner and less unhappy than most grown-ups want to admit.' Nara imbues the children with many dimensions and even varied interests, implying that they have a whole world of their own. This complexity packs humor, pain and charm in almost every image. Yoshitomo Nara is represented by The Pace Gallery, New York, NY. The 60-year-old Yoshitomo Nara just had a huge jump for his work at auction. Last year, Sotheby’s Hong Kong set a new auction record for Nara's work, selling one of his paintings from 2000 for about $25 million. That piece, Knife Behind Back (2000), was first sold for just $20,000 in 2001. Nara's previous record was a paltry (comparatively speaking) $4 million, a figure reached in May 2000 at Christie’s in Hong Kong. A number of other works by the artist have traded at auction in recent years in the $3 million range, but the new $25 million result places him in a lofty field inhabited by very few living artists (or historical artists, for that matter). Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:2024 'Yoshitomo Nara', Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (11/23/2024 - 4/27/2025) 'Yoshitomo Nara: I Draw the Line', BLUM, Tokyo, Japan (11/7/2024 - 1/18/2025) 'Yoshitomo Nara', Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain2023 'Yoshitomo Nara: The Bootleg Drawings 1988 – 2023', Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 'Yoshitomo Nara: The Beginning Place', Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara: Woodcuts, 2010 - 2022', Pace Prints, New York, NY 'Yoshitomo Nara: All My Little Words', Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria 'Yoshitomo Nara: Dog-o-rama', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon, Even If We Can't', The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia2022 'Yoshitomo Nara', Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Yoshitomo Nara', Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain 'Yoshitomo Nara', Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China2021 'Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca', Pace Gallery, London, UK 'Yoshitomo Nara', Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA 'Yoshitomo Nara: I Forgot Their Names and Often Can't Remember Their Faces but Remember Their Voices Well', Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX2020 'Yoshitomo Nara: After all I'm cosmic dust', Pace Gallery, New York, NY 'Yoshitomo Nara: After all I'm cosmic dust', Pace Gallery, East Hampton, NY2019 'Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings Last 31 Years', Château la Coste, Le Puy Ste Réparade, France2018 'Yoshitomo Nara: Ceramic Works and...', Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong2017 'Yoshitomo Nara: For Better or Worse', Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara: Thinker', Pace Gallery, New York, NY2016 'Yoshitomo Nara: New Works', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK 'Yoshitomo Nara', Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE), Taipei, Taiwan 2015 'Yoshitomo Nara: Life is Only One', Asia Society, Hong Kong Central, China 'Yoshitomo Nara', Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany 'Yoshitomo Nara: Shallow Puddles', Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara: Greetings from a Place in My Heart', ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark 2014 'Yoshitomo Nara: Greetings from a Place in My Heart', Dairy Art Centre, London, UK 2013 'Yoshitomo Nara: a bit like you and me...', Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan 2012 'Yoshitomo Nara: a bit like you and me...', Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori City, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara: The Little Little House in The Blue Woods', Towada Art Center, Aomori City, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara: Prints', 8/ ART Gallery/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara: a bit like you and me...', Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan 2011 'Yoshitomo Nara: Print Works', Roppongi Hills Art & Design Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2010 'Yoshitomo Nara: New Editions', Pace Prints, New York, NY 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool', Asia Society, New York, NY 'Yoshitomo Nara: Ceramic Works', Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 'Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s' (group exhibition), The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan 2009 'Yoshitomo Nara + YNG: The Crated Rooms in Iceland', Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland 'Walking in My Mind' (group exhibition), Hayward Gallery, London, UK 'Yoshitomo Nara', Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2008 'Yoshitomo Nara', Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 'Yoshitomo Nara + graf', BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK 'Yoshitomo Nara', Galerie Meyer & Kainer, Vienna, Austria 'Yoshitomo Nara', Galerie Zink, Münich, Germany 2007 'Yoshitomo Nara', Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany 'Yoshitomo Nara + graf', CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain 'Yoshitomo Nara', GEM - Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, The Netherlands 'Yoshitomo Nara + graf: BARACKE', Galerie Zink, Münich, Germany 2006 'Yoshitomo Nara + graf: A to Z', Yoshi Brick Brew House, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK 2005 'Yoshitomo Nara', Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 'Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer', Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens', Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI 'Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow', K21 (Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus), Düsseldorf, Germany 2004 'Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito: Over the Rainbow', Pinakothek der Moderne, Münich, Germany 'Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito: somewhere...', Galerie Zink & Gegner, Münich, Germany 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens', Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (traveled to Institute of Contemporay Art Philadelphia, PA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO) 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nowhere Land', Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany 'Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer', Kanazu Forest of Creation Museum, Hukui, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara', Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria 'Yoshitomo Nara: New Works 2004', Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2003 'Yoshitomo Nara: New Drawings', Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 'Yoshitomo Nara', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK 'Yoshitomo Nara', Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2002 'Contemporary Drawings: Eight Propositions' (group exhibition), MoMA QNS, NY 'Yoshitomo Nara', Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2001 'Yoshitomo Nara: in those days', Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan 'I Don't Mind, If You Forget Me', Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (traveled to Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Ashiya City Museum of Art, Asahikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Aomori Museum of Art) 'Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings', Collette, Paris, France 'Clear For Landing', Galerie Michael Zink, Münich, Germany 2000 'Lullaby Supermarket', Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA 'Walk on', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY StoreICON ABO

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