Blum
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
YOSHITOMO NARA
Blum is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Yoshitomo Nara at the gallery’s Tokyo location in November 2024. The new body of work created this year and sees Nara using a limited color palette and simple, distinct lines to carry and convey his potent, thought-provoking messages. On monochrome backgrounds, Nara’s imagination runs free, and his rapid strokes are full of spontaneity and energy. His characteristically wide-eyed, large-headed figures, delineated in paint with the same economy of line as in his pencil drawings, are accompanied by bold inscriptions: declarations that originate directly and sincerely from Nara’s heart. This solo exhibition will be followed by a larger show at Blum’s Los Angeles location in January 2025.
VENUE
VENUE
Blum
- D8
- Harajuku
Representing more than 60 artists and estates from 16 countries worldwide, Blum’s hands-on approach nurtures a diverse roster of artists at all stages of their practices with a range of global perspectives. The gallery has been a pioneer in its early commitment to Los Angeles as an international arts capital and is recognized for collaborating in launching the careers of artists such as Mark Grotjahn, Friedrich Kunath, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Asuka Anastacia Ogawa, Anna Park, Umar Rashid, and Henry Taylor. The gallery has also been acclaimed for its groundbreaking work in championing artists of Korean and Japanese postwar and contemporary movements, such as Dansaekhwa, Mono-ha, and Superflat. Across its spaces in Los Angeles (opened 1994), Tokyo (opened 2014), and New York (opened 2014), the gallery has organized museum-caliber solo presentations and historical survey exhibitions, often partnering with renowned curators and scholars, and presenting retrospectives of late artists such as American painter Robert Colescott and multidisciplinary artist Thornton Dial.
