YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)

“He (Yoshitomo Nara) was invited by German painter A.R. Penck to pursue his studies and was granted a Meisterschüler (master course) title in painting. This was a period of great isolation for Nara, during which he was reminded of his adolescent years in Aomori. The two psychologically coincided inside him; as he recalls, ‘The sky above winter in Germany was exactly like the sky in Aomori. It was an unexpected rediscovery of an almost forgotten value.”
– Mika Yoshitake, Curator