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Poster, 'Shiro Kuramata 1934–1991' exhibition (1996), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art 1996年原美術館「倉俁史朗的世界」展覽海報
1996
Created on the occasion of the exhibition Shiro Kuramata 1934–1991, held at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo in 1996, this poster features elements characteristic of Yokoo Tadanori’s practice while referencing the work of Kuramata Shiro, one of Japan’s most important twentieth-century designers. The background is a stylised rising sun—a motif in Yokoo’s designs that invokes Japanese history—with its beams shining through the multicoloured sky and clouds. In the foreground are two notable designs by Kuramata: the Oba-Q lamps at left and the Glass Chair at centre. Kuramata’s name in the Latin alphabet recalls the aesthetics of American comic books, while the bearded figure holds a medallion that shows Kuramata’s name in Japanese and the years of his birth and death. His face appears on a fukusuke doll, a traditional Japanese charm that Yokoo often appropriates in his designs. On the bottom, the square grid that leads to the sun refers to a Tokyo showroom for carpet samples Kuramata designed for the manufacturer Kirony in 1973. The grid of colours also recalls the work of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, who was an influence on Kuramata.
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