Yoshitomo Nara Reach Out to The Moon, Even If We Can’t. Installation View, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2023. © YOSHITOMO NARA, 2023. Photo: Dan McCabe.
The Gallery Guides bring Yoshitomo Nara's works to life with their insights into the artist in a Japanese spoken guided tour.
Celebrated Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara's first Australian solo exhibition Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon, Even If We Can't brings together major sculptural works alongside paintings, drawings, ceramics, and photography. Spanning 2011-2022, the exhibition focuses on key works from Nara's recent output.
Dramatically presented in AGWA's largest gallery space, the sculptural works form a series of interrelated islands that span a range of feeling states. Individually and collectively, they demonstrate Nara's unsurpassed ability to convey emotional nuance with clarity and moving intensity. The feeling of these works is echoed by surrounding drawings, paintings and ceramics in Nara's distinctive style.