Yoshitomo Nara - Lullaby Supermarket

Featuring Yoshitomo Nara's signature paintings, sculptures, and drawings; poems and diary entries by the artist; this 204-page book includes texts by the art critic Stephan Trescher and the Japanese cult author Banana Yoshimoto. Bilingual edition (March 2005) - German/Japanese.

Yoshitomo Nara was born in Aomori, Japan in 1959. Nara is a part of a generation of young Japanese artists whose works are informed by Japanese popular culture, primarily manga (comics) and television animation. Recently his work has been included in the following group exhibitions: 'Contemporary Drawings: Eight Propositions,' MoMA QNS, Queens, New York, Superflat at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Time at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1999,and The Manga Age at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1998. Nara has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Santa Monica Museum, and the Yokohama Museum of Art.