Art Hound

Nobody’s Fool, featuring two and a half decades of work by Yoshitomo Nara closed earlier this month, and I’m kicking myself for having missed it! The show, which took place at Asia Society in NYC, somehow slipped under my radar and, sadly, looks like just my cup of tea.

Source: Suzanne DeChillo for The NY Times

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Source: Suzanne DeChillo for The NY Times

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Mr. Nara’s is a cuddlier, even nerdier sensibility. He is best known for tackling or, perhaps more accurately, finessing life’s big questions with a cast of irresistible, cartoonish little girls and dogs. The girls rule. Rendered foremost in luminous paintings as simple shapes on monochrome grounds, they can be beatific or blissed-out, but tend more often toward resentful, rebellious or demonic…

Childhood emotions and memories and their persistence through life — the children we once were, the children we remain — are primary among Mr. Nara’s subjects. His art is the product of a painfully lonely childhood salvaged by an early and profound love of rock music. – Roberta Smith for The New York Times

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All images are from Asia Society unless otherwise noted.

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I think I’m going to buy this postcard set to help ease the pain.

Did anyone make it?