Yoshitomo Nara - My Imperfect Self
This publication highlights Nara’s evolving sculptural practice, featuring a new series of mid-size heads exuding a quirky strangeness and dark charm that defines the artist’s work. These heads, presented for the first time in 2025, are integral to Nara’s exploration in clay, intertwining ideas and techniques developed since 2011, but also express a poignant return to his roots. The awkwardness of these heads embraces the possibilities of mischance and imperfections. They form their own gang of misfits. For Nara, this reflects a renewed engagement with the praxis of making—the dynamic interplay between hand and body, craft and object—which directs his curiosity toward possibilities of incompleteness. The book also includes paintings and drawings that resonate with the sculptures, inviting deeper reflection on his ongoing experimentation throughout his career.
Text by: Yeewan Koon. Published by: BLUM Books
Hardcover, 112 pages
This publication highlights Nara’s evolving sculptural practice, featuring a new series of mid-size heads exuding a quirky strangeness and dark charm that defines the artist’s work. These heads, presented for the first time in 2025, are integral to Nara’s exploration in clay, intertwining ideas and techniques developed since 2011, but also express a poignant return to his roots. The awkwardness of these heads embraces the possibilities of mischance and imperfections. They form their own gang of misfits. For Nara, this reflects a renewed engagement with the praxis of making—the dynamic interplay between hand and body, craft and object—which directs his curiosity toward possibilities of incompleteness. The book also includes paintings and drawings that resonate with the sculptures, inviting deeper reflection on his ongoing experimentation throughout his career.
Text by: Yeewan Koon. Published by: BLUM Books
Hardcover, 112 pages
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Yoshitomo Nara - My Imperfect Self
This publication highlights Nara’s evolving sculptural practice, featuring a new series of mid-size heads exuding a quirky strangeness and dark charm that defines the artist’s work. These heads, presented for the first time in 2025, are integral to Nara’s exploration in clay, intertwining ideas and techniques developed since 2011, but also express a poignant return to his roots. The awkwardness of these heads embraces the possibilities of mischance and imperfections. They form their own gang of misfits. For Nara, this reflects a renewed engagement with the praxis of making—the dynamic interplay between hand and body, craft and object—which directs his curiosity toward possibilities of incompleteness. The book also includes paintings and drawings that resonate with the sculptures, inviting deeper reflection on his ongoing experimentation throughout his career.
Text by: Yeewan Koon. Published by: BLUM Books
Hardcover, 112 pages
This publication highlights Nara’s evolving sculptural practice, featuring a new series of mid-size heads exuding a quirky strangeness and dark charm that defines the artist’s work. These heads, presented for the first time in 2025, are integral to Nara’s exploration in clay, intertwining ideas and techniques developed since 2011, but also express a poignant return to his roots. The awkwardness of these heads embraces the possibilities of mischance and imperfections. They form their own gang of misfits. For Nara, this reflects a renewed engagement with the praxis of making—the dynamic interplay between hand and body, craft and object—which directs his curiosity toward possibilities of incompleteness. The book also includes paintings and drawings that resonate with the sculptures, inviting deeper reflection on his ongoing experimentation throughout his career.
Text by: Yeewan Koon. Published by: BLUM Books
Hardcover, 112 pages
