Artforum, September 1st, 2002
HIROSHIMA
YOSHITOMO NARA HIROSHIMA CITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
The children in Yoshitomo Nara's paintings have a malicious air, and they are quite alone. The puppies are good and patient. Whose childhood is this? Your Childhood, 2001, a large installation, consists of a mirror with the words YouR CHILDHOOD affixed to it in letters made from sulky-looking rag dolls; on a facing wall the soft, friendly, resigned snout of a white dog pokes out from under a blanket in its dog bed. The entire oeuvre-installations, paintings, and drawings-of this artist born in 1959 seems to deal with childhoo...
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