Andy Warhol Exhibition The Greatest of All Time! The Collection of the Original Warhol Otaku Kuriyama Yutaka

Nov. 4 [Fri.] ― Nov. 19 [Sat.] 2022 11:00-19:00
Gallery closed Sun., Mon., and national holidays.

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KURIYAMA Yutaka, aged 55, collapsed on the street and died on February 22, 2001 - curiously enough, the same date as the death of Andy Warhol. He was a caricature artist who stood on the night corners of Shinjuku.

From the 1960s, Kuriyama voraciously collected all forms of information regarding Warhol - from catalogues, of course, to newspapers, magazines, advertisements, exhibition ticket stubs, television commercials, and even matchboxes from jazz cafes. The sheer number of Warhol documents he left behind are the most extensive record of Warhol's reception in Japan and have been the bases for many Warholy retrospective, starting with the Gendai Hanga Center's Andy Warhol Cross Country Exhibition in 1983.

This exhibition will be the first to display the entirety of Kuriyama's enormous Warhol archive. In addition, we will show the Warhol silkscreen series "KIKU" and "LOVE" which were editioned by the Gendai Hanga Center in 1983, archival footage of the massive underground Warhol exhibition among the Oya stone in Tochigi, posters, and more. We hope you can use this opportunity to see this important documentation recording the way Japanese media has reacted to Any Warhol.

Althought Mr. Kuriyama passed away on February 22, 2001, we will also display magazines with articles on Warhol from the 2000s onwards that have been donated to us by Rokugatsusha (Hashimoto Ryoichi), the private library once located in Takadanobaba.

The opening of the "Warhol and the Massive Underground Exhibition" held at Ruins of Oya Stone Mining Site at Utsunomiya (Japan) in July 1983 and the printing of "200 Marilyns" at the venue for the exhibition. (VTR: ISHIDA Ryoichi)

■ Andy WARHOL（1928-1987）
Born August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh under the name of “Andrew Warhola.” He graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. His first solo exhibition was held 1952 at Hugo Gallery, New York, showing his drawings. In 1956, Warhol embarked on a six-week round-the-world trip with a friend, which also led him to Japan. Following Marilyn Monroe’s death on August 5, 1962, he created his iconic “Marilyn” in the same year. Since 1963 he was also active as a film maker, and survived an assassination attempt in 1968. Warhol came a second time to Japan in 1974, for his solo exhibition at the Daimaru Department Store. He died in 1987.

■KURIYAMA Yutaka (1946-2001)
Born in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture. After graduating from Tanabe High School in 1965, began drawing caricatures in Ginza. 1969, graduated from the Art Department of Bunka Gakuin. 1977, met Andy Warhol while crossing the United States. 1977, began drawing murals (including at Shibuya PARCO). 1979, made the Tokyo mayoral election poster for Akiyama Yutokutaishi. 1983 edited the Andy Warhol Exhibition catalogue (Gendai Hanga Center, Shibuya PARCO). From 1989-1996, toured 12 cities around the world. February 22, 2001, died on the same date as Andy Warhol.

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