House, Layered Space-Time, Travel, No War, Rock Cafe "33 1/3" and a small community.
In order to find a single trunk that leads to the origin of that sensibility, the book includes venue photos and artworks organized along five themes, a detailed chronology of Nara, and essays by researchers.
Contributions: Masato Goda (philosophy researcher), Josh Kun (music critic), Shigemi Takahashi (Aomori Museum of Art)

A catalog and book of the solo exhibition to be held at the Aomori Museum of Art from October 14, 2023 to February 25, 2024.

■Contents:

Works illustrations/Installation views

A brief chronology of Yoshitomo Nara

To the place where it all began: Yoshitomo Nara after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Shigemi Takahashi
To somewhere that can only be found here:
Essays on Yoshitomo Nara and his work, Masato Goda With one foot in the groove: Listening to Yoshitomo Nara, 4 sides of a 2-disc album, Josh Kun

List of works

Nara Yoshitomo was
born in Aomori Prefecture in 1959. He completed his master's degree at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1987. He moved to Germany in 1988 and enrolled in the National Academy of Art Düsseldorf. After graduating, he lived in Cologne before returning to Japan in 2000. Since the late 1990s, he has been exhibiting in various locations in Europe, America, Japan, and Asia.