Tadanori Yokoo – River of Renga
Tadanori Yokoo – River of Renga
| Author | Akira Tatehata; Miki Tsukada |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Kokushokankokai |
| ISBN | 9784336077523 |
| Idea Code | 251105 |
In spring 2023, the prolific Japanese artist Tadanori Yokoo began a new series that belies his own dispassionate acceptance of the limitations of an ageing body. Painted without preconceived themes, he titled these large canvases ‘Renga’, meaning “linked paintings”, a play on the homonymous term for linked verse in Japanese poetry. Emulating this sequential approach to collaborative creation, Yokoo would view his previous day’s work as if it were painted by a stranger and use it as inspiration to work further. This book appears with an eponymous exhibition featuring new oil paintings as well as sketches, offering a comprehensive portrait of Yokoo in his old age.
| 192 p, ills colour & bw, 31 x 31 cm, hb, Japanese/English |
