Midnight Truth by Yoshitomo Nara Explore Mondoir Collection Medium: Offset Lithograph Poster Dimensions: 51.5 x 36.5 cm Edition production year: 2017 Price on request Status: available Why collect this work?The severe frontal crop makes a childlike face feel less like a portrait of personality than a test of how little expression is needed to sustain attention. Pace Gallery records a large 2017 acrylic painting titled Midnight Truth. The catalogue identifies this object as an offset lithograph poster, positioning it as a printed translation of Nara’s painted composition. (Yoshitomo Nara | Pace Gallery (opens in a new tab))In the supplied photograph, the rounded head nearly fills the field. Wide-set eyes establish a direct depicted gaze, while the small, level mouth leaves the figure’s attitude unresolved rather than clearly innocent, hostile or sad.Offset lithography enables an image to circulate in repeatable printed form. At 51.5 by 36.5 cm, according to the catalogue, the poster condenses a composition documented elsewhere at monumental scale without reproducing the painting’s physical surface.This version is significant for examining how scale and reproduction alter address: the face retains its visual pressure even as a large painting becomes a handheld-format print. About the ArtistYoshitomo Nara Yoshitomo Nara is an artist featured in the Mondoir Collection. Nationality: Japanese Contemporary artist known for whimsical, childlike figures in his work.
