Press Release
Johnen Galerie is pleased to present Yoshitomo Nara’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will include new paintings on canvas, on wood and on cardboard and a number of drawings. It is the artist’s first exhibition in Germany since 2008. Best known for his images of large-eyed children, often melancholy, mischievous and / or roguish, against an ostensibly uniform background, Nara’s representations are neither realistic nor entirely cartoonish. Despite the misleadingly simple array...