albertz benda exhibits three bodies of work that span the past 40 years of Tadanori Yokoo`s practice
(Artdaily.org)

albertz benda is presenting a solo exhibition by Tadanori Yokoo, Death and Dreams, comprising three bodies of work that span the past 40 years of the acclaimed artist’s practice. On view from September 6 through October 13, the majority of the works in Death and Dreams are drawn from Yokoo’s recent exhibition at the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art in Kobe, Japan, which is dedicated to the artist. They are shown now both for the first time outside Japan and in a private gallery. Featuring the complete 1980 series Back of Head, the 2010 series Falling Woman, and the Mystery Woman series started in 2016, Death and Dreams examines the fascinating progression of the artist’s dialogue with portraiture, repetition, and appropriation of Japanese and Western popular culture over the course of four decades. Creating series of unique