Vice President Lai Qingde (middle), Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai (left) and Yoshitomo Nara took a group photo in front of the work "Travel in a Hazy and Wet Day".

(Photo by reporter Li Huizhou)

[Reporters Huang Xulei, Li Huizhou/Kaohsiung Report] "Traveling with a Misty and Wet Day" tour exhibition will be on display at Neiwei Art Center from now until August 31. When we met, I was deeply moved by his persevering spirit and bright expectations for the future.

Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara.

(Photo by reporter Li Huizhou)

The painting "Hazy Humid Day" (Hazy Humid Day) was unveiled publicly for the second time in Kaohsiung. Yoshitomo Nara rarely showed up to guide the tour yesterday, and 20 photographic works were exhibited at the same time, which were taken by Yoshitomo Nara during his trip to Taiwan in 2015.

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Photographs taken by Yoshitomo Nara during his trip to Taiwan in 2015.

(Photo by reporter Li Huizhou)

Lai Qingde said that "A Misty and Wet Day" made him feel the temperament of a little girl who does not give up hope.

Yoshitomo Nara pointed out through a translator that he hoped that the work's tour in Asia would bring people a sense of relaxation and peace.

Chen Qimai revealed that Nara privately said that the little girl's eyes are asymmetrical, one eye is facing difficulties and challenges, and the other eye is facing the future, hoping to bring people courage and warmth.

Yesterday afternoon, Yoshitomo Nara held an online lecture "About what I have done in the past year, my mood changes after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and the future." And Kaohsiung City Hall link to watch online.

Yoshitomo Nara said: "My background is different from that of ordinary artists, which formed me like this." When I was studying, I was either working or playing every day, but including the impression of shoveling snow in the streets of Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture when I was a child, and my mother helped wash pink every day. The dog pattern printed on the diaper, and the visual memory of every bit, all become the nutrient for creation.

Nara emphasized that when creation encounters a bottleneck, it is not art-related matters that save oneself.

Looking back, playing rugby in high school, DIY refitting a rock cafe, and the idea of ​​doing something for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 gave him the motivation to create.

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