もう限界!うるっせぇ、傲慢、インポ粗チン、口臭く、奈良美智 FUCK YOU! くたばれ! I've had enough! Shut up, you arrogant, impotent, small-dicked, stinking-breathed—Yoshitomo Nara, FUCK YOU! Drop dead!
奈良美智 NARA Yoshitomo "Fuck You!" 2023, Grease stick on paper, 43 1/8 x 31 1/8 inches @ BLUM Gallery, Tokyo
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I have an issue with Nara-kun, the Japanese artist of my generation who is actually considered the Number One Artist.
I have to follow him on X because it’s his only channel of communication.
He doesn’t allow any reactions—meaning comments—on his posts.
That’s the last straw. Somehow, he just doesn’t get that he spouts so much bullshit.
For fuck’s sake, Jeez! Not 5, neither 10… a whole bunch of 30 “Fuck” art pieces had been sold by Nara-kun.
That’s fucking insane! Our extremely busy art worker really LOVES to use the word “fuck ya!” as artistic masturbation practice.
I suppose that is the sort of person HONDA Katsuichi is. However, as one’s achievements in the world are visible to all, I—who am doing much the same as Ms Kusama—find the criticism from such a person, who seems to have nothing but a big head, gets under my skin, rather infuriating, but I simply laugh it off.
KUSAMA Yayoi’s work will endure in history, whereas HONDA Katsuichi’s criticisms certainly will not. What KUSAMA Yayoi has accomplished exists on a plane far above his own. In terms of how much a human being who isn’t perfect can accomplish, I think Honda should bow his head a little to Kusama for having done all this.
Let me give you an example of just how famous and highly acclaimed the journalist and author HONDA Katsuichi is.
Honda has accomplished far more for Japan and its society than Nara-kun and the late KUSAMA Yayoi COMBINED!
奈良と草間による、愚かなイラストのような絵画や彫刻 ―― 幼稚で、未熟で、退屈で、馬鹿げている ―― は、人々を愚か者や間抜け、そして単純な人間に変えてしまう。 「I DON’T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME 俺の事を忘れてほしい」の超un-cool奈良くんよ、お前は本多勝一に深々と頭を下げるべきだ!
The stupid illustration-like paintings and sculptures by Nara and Kusama — childish, immature, tedious, and idiotic — turn people into fools, idiots and simpletons. “I DON’T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME” – very un-cool Nara-kun, you ought to bow deeply to Honda!
東京、2026年8月28日
亜 真里男 Mario A
“Untitled” by Nara, 2001-2002。43歳の偏執的な奈良美智は、誰かを撃ち殺したい。Paranoid Yoshitomo Nara, 43, wants to shoot someone dead.
1990. Nara is studying in West-Germany. German reunification. West Berlin and East Berlin are coming together. “Berlin – After the Wall”. What does Nara paint at the Düsseldorf Art Academy during this significant socio-cultural period? Childish, incredibly silly pictures. As a Japanese man, at the adult age of 31!
奈良美智 NARA Yoshitomo 「パンドラの箱」”Pandora’s Box” 1990. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 cm. Private collection奈良美智 NARA Yoshitomo “Mein Kopf” 1991. Water color on paper, 63.5 x 49 cm. Private Collection奈良美智 NARA Yoshitomo “Untitled” 1991 Acylic on window glass with wood frame. 107 x 92 x 5 cm. Signed and dated ‘Yoshitomo Nara ’91’. – Traces of studio and minor traces of age. (Sold @ Lempertz 2021/6/17 for 225.000 Euro 2千900万円) ここに載せた写真とスクリーンショットは、すべて「好意によりクリエーティブ・コモン・センス」の文脈で、日本美術史の記録の為に発表致します。Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial-NoDerivative Works photos: cccs courtesy creative common sense奈良美智 NARA Yoshitomo “Untitled” 1991, back, 作品の裏側, signature, detail (screenshot from the website of Lempertz)
Yoshitomo Nara
“Untitled”
1991
Acylic on window glass with wood frame. 107 x 92 x 5 cm. Signed and dated ‘Yoshitomo Nara ’91’. – Traces of studio and minor traces of age.
(Text by Lempertz:)
In 1991, the year in which the work on offer was created, the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara was studying at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf under A.R. Penck. The influence of his teacher can be discerned in this early work which is reminiscent of a child’s drawing due to its highly simplified, sketch-like execution. It thus contrasts with Naras later paintings which are characterised by a smooth, flawless visual vocabulary.
The feeling of isolation that the young artist experienced, living in a foreign country for several years, and his confrontation with the unfamiliar environment are expressed in his art. In a nonverbal manner, he manages to give the viewer an insight into himself through his paintings and drawings, incorporating childhood memories and the visual vocabulary of Japanese children’s books. Even in his early works, he concentrates on isolated child figures who act in a kind of bubble without a defined environment. While these little protagonists are often characterised by emotions such as being lost, grief or anger, the present work conveys a feeling of optimism and insouciance.
Similar to the Manga comics of his Japanese homeland or street art, Nara repeatedly combines painting with elements of text. In this work, a window with a wooden frame that was adapted as an unconventional picture carrier, also evokes the rough character of street art. Nara’s use of text passages usually stem from rock or punk songs which he listens to during the artistic process. This music is a major source of inspiration for him; key issues such as rebellion and nonconformity are repeatedly found in his painting. In this case, however, he emphasises the pleasure of music and a positive basic attitude: ‘But nothing get[s] me down.’
Catalogue Raisonné
Yoshitomo Nara, The complete works, paintings, sculptures, editions, photographs, Vol. 1, San Francisco 2011, cat.rais. no. P-1991-016
Provenance Directly from the artist; private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate https://www.lempertz.com/en/catalogues/lot/1177-1/57-yoshitomo-nara.html
バカ奈良は絶えず「戦争ではなく愛を(Make love, not war)」と叫んでいる。だが、愛ゆえに誰かとセックスしたことなど一度もなく、それゆえ「愛を交わす(making love)」ことの本当の意味も感触も、全く分かっていないのだ。
彼は作品の中で常にナイフを突きつけて人々を威嚇し、ピストル射撃、誰彼構わず中指を立てて見せる。「お前ら全員、くたばれ(FUCK YOU)!」と。これこそが奈良の戦争なのだ。奈良は傲慢なパラノイド偽善者である!
“Untitled” by Nara, 2001-2002。43歳の偏執的な奈良美智は、誰かを撃ち殺したい。Paranoid Yoshitomo Nara, 43, wants to shoot someone dead.
Idiot Nara constantly cries out, “Make love, not war.” Yet, he has never once had sex out of love, and consequently, he has absolutely no understanding of the true meaning or sensation of “making love.”
In his works, he is always threatening people by brandishing a knife, pistol shooting, and flipping the bird at anyone and everyone, shouting, “FUCK YOU!” This is Nara’s war. Nara is an arrogant, paranoid hypocrite!
奈良美智 Yoshitomo Nara ‘Present’ 1994, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 150 cm2009年2月27日、奈良美智の逮捕時の写真 (マグショット) 。奈良は、警察官による逮捕に身体的に抵抗したことなどもあって、ニューヨークの留置場で一晩を過ごした。Mugshot/police photo of Yoshitomo Nara, February 27, 2009. Nara spent one night in a New York jail, partly because he physically resisted arrest by the police officers.
お前は2014年に正式に我が国を去った。それ以来、東京を含む日本のアート界の生態系を陰で裏切り、日本のギャラリーを通じて現地のアートシーンに積極的に参加することなど一切していない。我らが「義理人情」の地を蹂躙する者!ここから出て行け、アメリカへ帰れ(「アイ・ラブ・L.A.」)、この非愛国者め、日本のアート界を破壊する奴め!「クール」な日本人アーティストを気取ってる = お前は笑いものだ!お前は超ダサい!🤣
さっさと失せろ!
Yoshitomo Nara Fuck off
You officially left Japan in 2014. Since then, you’ve sneakily betrayed the ecosystem of the Japanese art world—including Tokyo—and have NOT actively participated in the local art scene through a Japanese gallery. You who trample upon our land of “duty and compassion”! Get out of here and go to America (“I love L.A.“), you anti-patriot, you destroyer of the Japanese art world!
Acting like a “cool” Japanese artist?! You’re a laughingstock! Way too old-fashioned!🤣
Get the FUCK OFF!
奈良美智 ー「クール」な日本人アーティストを気取ってる = お前は笑いものだ!お前は超ダサい! 🤣 さっさと失せろ! NARA Yoshitomo – acting like a “cool” Japanese artist?! You’re a laughingstock! Way too old-fashioned! 🤣
Get the FUCK OFF!Yoshitomo Nara IF YOU LIKE ME, FUCK OFF.Cool, typical, Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara クールである、代表的なにっぽん人美術家奈良美智パラノイド奈良美智 Paranoid Yoshitomo Nara FUCK OFF