yoshitomo nara @ Pace/MacGill

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yoshitomo nara @ Pace/MacGill

October 15th, 2018 by fstop

CHINA, 1983

yoshitomo nara: all things must pass, but nothing is lost /
precious days around me, sometimes farther along,
sometimes under my feet
October 25, 2018 – January 12, 2019

Opening reception: Wednesday, October 24, 6 – 8 PM

“Nara is internationally renowned for his distinctive paintings, sculptures, and drawings of single figures, but his near lifelong pursuit of photographic expression remains relatively unexplored. His interest in the medium originated at age 13 – when his parents gave him his first camera – and began informing his artistic practice a decade later while traveling as a student. Nara’s 1983 photographs taken in Beijing and Taiyuan in Northern Shanxi, China are early visual commentaries on post-Mao social culture. Shot on color film but printed in black-and-white, these deftly captured observations document a society on the cusp of radical transformation through everyday scenes and candid portraits of ordinary citizens – subjects that Nara continues to pursue to this day. Thirty-one years later, Nara’s 2014 pilgrimage to Sakhalin, a remote island north of Japan where his farmer grandfather worked as a coal miner in the agricultural offseason, produced a deeply personal photographic appreciation of his heritage and homeland. Likewise, his recent pictures from Taiwan evoke a strong sense of the country’s cultural identity and natural landscape. ”

Pace/MacGill
32 East 57th Street, 9th Floor

Location: New York, New York City, United States Type: Exhibition

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