Welcome! Yokoo Onsenkyo

An exhibition catalog by Tadanori Yokoo themed around hot springs and travel. This book was published in conjunction with the "Welcome! Yokoo Onsenkyo" exhibition held at the Tadanori Yokoo Museum of Contemporary Art.

It primarily features the "Sento Series" (public bath series) announced in 2004, and the "Onsen Series" (hot spring series) created over approximately three years from 2005 while traveling to various hot spring resorts across Japan. Memories of women's baths, Edo-period playful paintings, scenery of tourist destinations, encounters with people, and local history and anecdotes are interwoven with Yokoo's own memories and fantasies to form a unique world.

For this exhibition, the entire museum was envisioned as a hot spring facility, and the exhibition was themed around travel to hot spring resorts and public bath culture. In addition to a collection of works set in various locations across Japan, such as Kinosaki Onsen, Kusatsu Onsen, and Dogo Onsen, tourist posters and prints were also presented. Visitors could enjoy Tadanori Yokoo's unique world where travel and hot springs, humor and art history, memories and fantasies intertwine.

This book is recommended for hot spring enthusiasts and anyone wishing to experience the world of Tadanori Yokoo's art. It resembles both a collection of travel essays about hot spring regions and an anthology of works gathering fragments of memories etched into the land of Japan.

[Title] Welcome! Yokoo Onsenkyo
[Publisher] Tadanori Yokoo Museum of Contemporary Art
[Publication Date] December 2016
[Pages] 104 pages
[Size] Approx. 257*183mm / 440g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese
[Title Reading] YOKOSO YOKOO ONSENKYO
[Author/Editor] Tadanori Yokoo / Works, Tadanori Yokoo Museum of Contemporary Art / Edited
[Printing] -
[ISBN] -
[Condition] Used [6] Good to Very Good ()
[Accessories] None
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[Related Exhibition] Welcome! Yokoo Onsenkyo (Tadanori Yokoo Museum of Contemporary Art, December 17, 2016 - March 26, 2017)

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936)

Born in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo Prefecture. Artist, graphic designer.

Since the 1960s, he has created innovative works in posters, book design, and advertising. In 1972, he held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, establishing his international reputation. Subsequently, he shifted his focus to painting, continuing his prolific creative activities with themes such as self-portraits, travel, views on life and death, Y-junctions, and hot springs.

Representative works include "TADANORI YOKOO," "Osen of the Waistcloth: Oblivion," the "Y-Junction" series, the "Sento Series," and the "Onsen Series."

Major awards include the Mainichi Design Award, the Medal with Purple Ribbon, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, and the Praemium Imperiale.

Major collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; and Tadanori Yokoo Museum of Contemporary Art.

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