Yokoo in Wonderland

Poster design: Yokoo Tadanori

In viewing the art of Yokoo Tadanori, it sometimes seems as if you have strayed into another dimension. In this exhibition, we escort the viewer into a parallel realm that borders reality through a collection of wonders from Yokoo World. 

Just as Alice’s adventures in Lewis Carroll’s book Alice in Wonderland start with her falling down the rabbit hole, the first section of this exhibition, Yokoo in Wonderland, begins with a girl jumping into a hole. There she discovers an underground kingdom and a cave before continuing on her journey beneath the sea, into space, and deep into an unknown world. In the second section, “The Looking-Glass World,” the girl passes through a mirror just as Alice did and encounters a maniacal realm in which real and virtual images are jumbled together. And in the third section, “The Land of Dreams,” she enters a surrealistic world of reality intertwined with unreality. 

We hope that when you open the door to Yokoo Tadanori’s Wonderland, you will find yourself immersed in an infinitely expanding universe.

Dates
September 16 (Sat.) - December 24 (Sun.), 2023

Closed: Mondays (except Sep.18 and Oct.9), Sep.19 and Oct.10
Hours: 10:00 - 18:00 (admission until 17:30)
Admission

Adult ¥700
University students ¥550
Age 70 and over ¥350
High school students and younger Free

《Logical Connection》 1987 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
《Melancholy》 1986 Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
《Take Me to the End of the Earth》 1994 Collection of the artist (deposited in Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art)
《Angelic Beam》 1994 Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
《Travels to the Millennial Kingdom, The Catalog of Tadanori Yokoo's Work [Red](Kodansha)》 1974 Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
《Red Wonderland》 1973 Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
《Art is not Produced by Suffering》 1985 Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
《Heaven's Magic》 1985 Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
《Are You Ready for Fresh Air? (Vitar)》  1989 Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
《Yumemakura 26》 1998 Collection of the artist (deposited in Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art)