Requiem: Cats, Portraits, and Yokoo Tadanori [poster]
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.
Adult ¥700
University students ¥550
Age 70 and over ¥350
High school students and younger Free
Also on View: YOKOO TADANORI COLLECTION GALLERY
The Yokoo Tadanori Collection Gallery, newly established in 2021, was designed to display documents from Yokoo Tadanori’s archive as well as showcasing a diverse range of collections that Yokoo has maintained for many years in order to provide a deeper and slightly different perspective on the artist’s body of work.
In conjunction with the special exhibition, Requiem: Cats, Portraits, and Yokoo Tadanori, we present a special exhibit of work related to Andy Warhol, an artist with whom Yokoo was personally acquainted.
Yokoo’s first met Warhol in 1967. In a dimly-lit room in the artist’s studio, known as the Factory, Yokoo watched as the sunglasses-clad artist made his work, and then presented Warhol with a book of his own works. Several years later, Yokoo visited Warhol in his new office and bought two of the artist’s portraits of Mick Jagger from him.
In this exhibit, we present four of Warhol’s works, which adorned the walls of Yokoo’s house, along with 57 of the 60 works in a series called A.W. Mandala, based on a Warhol motif, which Yokoo gifted to the museum in 2023.
Dates September 14 (Sat.) – December 15 (Sun.), 2024
Closed: Mondays (except Sep.16, Sep.23, Oct.14 and Nov.4) and
Sep.17, Sep.24, Oct.15 and Nov.5
Hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (admission until 17:30)
