Showing posts with label Tadanori Yokoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tadanori Yokoo. Show all posts

28 November, 2012

Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art opened on Nov 3rd.


 
About Tadanori Yokoo





Tadanori Yokoo, born in Nishiwaki city in Hyogo, became an artist after working as a graphic designer for the Kobe Shimbun newspaper. He is an oil painter, book designer and writer. He won the Grand Prize at the 6th Paris Youth Biennal in 1969. Following this success, he has held exhibitions in New York, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Paris, and is recognized as one of Japan’s most successful artists.






 
Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
The museum houses Yokoo’s world-renowned classic collections in addition to pieces by other artists who have worked alongside him. A whole range of special exhibitions related to Tadanori Yokoo will be held here from now on.