Children in Yoshitomo Nara's Works
Children in Yoshitomo Nara's works are often viewed as being born and raised in an overly wealthy nation. People may think that the children are unsatisfied and bored with its emptiness. Rooted in Nara's own childhood in the early 1960s in Hirosaki, a city which is about 700 kilometers north of Tokyo, the children that Nara paints could actually be interpreted differently. Before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964, Japanese society was still poor and young, but at the same time, there were many new possibilities. Mika Kuraya will reconsider the children in Nara's works in the light of changes of the post-war Japanese society. Lecture at 7pm close at 8.30pm.