Lot 420
Having Reached a Climax at the Age of 29. 1965.
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Having Reached a Climax at the Age of 29. 1965.
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PAI-LXXXIX: Rare Posters
Live Bidding began Mar 26, 2023 at 11:00 AM EDT
ARTIST
TADANORI YOKOO (1936- )
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Artist: TADANORI YOKOO (1936- )
Size: 28 1/2 x 39 5/8 in./72.3 x 100.7 cm
Condition: A/P. Framed.
Reference: Yokoo, p. 17; Yokoo/Graphic Works, p. 65; Yokoo’s Posters, 1; Yokoo/Paris, p. 1; Encyclopédie/Weill, p. 273; Avant Garde, p. 184; Modern Poster, 275; PAI-XXV, 544
Key Words: Modern; Artist: Yokoo; Japanese
Having Reached a Climax at the Age of 29. 1965.
“A great deal of public interest was aroused by the ‘Persona Exhibition,’ a group exhibition by 16 designers, which opened at the Matsuya Department Store in the Ginza section of Tokyo in November of 1965. Yokoo, who had held his first one-man exhibition at the Yoshida Gallery in Nihonbashi that February, had excited the interest of both his fellow designers and art critics... It was Yokoo’s collection of posters which became the major talking point of the ‘Persona Exhibition.’ This poster was created especially for the [exhibition]. The caption to the poster is of a derisive nature and aimed at the artist himself: it is in English, perhaps because the message was meant to reach a world audience. It might be that the corpse hanging by its neck, centered against a background of the bright rays of a rising sun gleaming in a blue sky, a single full-blown rose clasped tightly in one hand, represents the artist’s departure from his previous style... The photograph of the baby in the bottom corner is the artist himself at the age of one and a half... What creates the powerful impression made by this poster is the strong contrast of red and blue in the pattern of the rising sun. We often come across this pattern in Oriental references by Western artists; one reason why it may be considered inherently Japanese may possibly be its association in the mind with the flag used by the former Japanese Empire” (Yokoo, p. 6).
Size: 28 1/2 x 39 5/8 in./72.3 x 100.7 cm
Condition: A/P. Framed.
Reference: Yokoo, p. 17; Yokoo/Graphic Works, p. 65; Yokoo’s Posters, 1; Yokoo/Paris, p. 1; Encyclopédie/Weill, p. 273; Avant Garde, p. 184; Modern Poster, 275; PAI-XXV, 544
Key Words: Modern; Artist: Yokoo; Japanese
Having Reached a Climax at the Age of 29. 1965.
“A great deal of public interest was aroused by the ‘Persona Exhibition,’ a group exhibition by 16 designers, which opened at the Matsuya Department Store in the Ginza section of Tokyo in November of 1965. Yokoo, who had held his first one-man exhibition at the Yoshida Gallery in Nihonbashi that February, had excited the interest of both his fellow designers and art critics... It was Yokoo’s collection of posters which became the major talking point of the ‘Persona Exhibition.’ This poster was created especially for the [exhibition]. The caption to the poster is of a derisive nature and aimed at the artist himself: it is in English, perhaps because the message was meant to reach a world audience. It might be that the corpse hanging by its neck, centered against a background of the bright rays of a rising sun gleaming in a blue sky, a single full-blown rose clasped tightly in one hand, represents the artist’s departure from his previous style... The photograph of the baby in the bottom corner is the artist himself at the age of one and a half... What creates the powerful impression made by this poster is the strong contrast of red and blue in the pattern of the rising sun. We often come across this pattern in Oriental references by Western artists; one reason why it may be considered inherently Japanese may possibly be its association in the mind with the flag used by the former Japanese Empire” (Yokoo, p. 6).
