The memory of the pioneer of Japanese Pop Art

Keiichi Tanaami is one of the leading post-war pop artists in Japan. Since the 1960s he has expressed his creativity in a variety of ways, working as a graphic designer, illustrator, videomaker and painter. This at The National Art Center is the first major retrospective in the world dedicated to this artist born in 1936 in Tokyo. In addition to new paintings, sculptures, and animations, the exhibition will feature valuable graphic and illustration works created in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as a series of brightly colored wood sculptures from the 1980s and some of his first pop paintings. Works of art recently discovered in his studio. The common thread that links Tanaami's long journey through the arts is the theme of memory. A key word that serves to reveal the most intimate and human meaning of the artistic practice of this extraordinary protagonist of the twentieth century.