Yokoo Tadanori, who celebrated his 88th birthday in June of 2024, has been involved with numerous people through his creative work in a career that stretches from the 1960s, when he was first acclaimed as a graphic designer, to the present as he continues to explore new frontiers as a painter. The footprints of Yokoo’s genre-traversing relationships with admired writers and actors, avant-grade theater and art figures, and friends from other fields who engaged with him in mutually enhancing collaborations, have gone down in history through his works.
This exhibition focuses on the artist’s reminisces of intimate friends and family, and beloved cats that have already departed. As the title suggests, the venue is made up of words related to cats, portraits, and one artist – Yokoo Tadanori.
In addition to portraits and materials connected to people who have influenced Yokoo’s way of living and making art, including his family and friends, the portrait gallery contains written statements by the artist in which he reflects on his relationships with these people.
Along with the Tama, Come Home series, dedicated to the memory of Yokoo’s late cat Tama, the cat gallery is adorned with a host of photographs and sketches of the feline from bygone days.
It is our hope that this exhibition will serve as a place where the near and the dear can move freely between this world and that other shore, and experience Yokoo World together with viewers across both time and space.
Also on View: YOKOO TADANORI COLLECTION GALLERY
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