3 weeks left to see Yoshitomo Nara’s “Nobody’s Fool”
Yoshitomo Nara moved to Germany in the late 80s in an attempt to isolate himself and focus his work. With the language barrier and his obvious outsider status, he became more alone than he bargained for. But it wasn’t all for naught. It was his extreme solitude that made him realize that “each painting needs only to speak to one thing,” and it was during this period that Nara’s style changed drastically from loose and Expressionistic to the stylized, “cartoon” portraits he’s become famous for.
In the past twenty years of his work, there are three themes that occur again and again: isolation, rebellion and music, or at least that’s how the Asia Society Museum sees it. There’s still time to “Nobody’s Fool” before it closes on January 2, and if you check in on Foursquare at the museum you can get 2 for 1 admission.
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