"TADANORI YOKOO – Universiade Kobe ’85", Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset 1984, B1 Size (c. 73 × 103 cm)

This is an original Japanese offset poster printed in 1984 for the Universiade Kobe ’85 advertising campaign. Designed by Tadanori Yokoo and now held in the collection of the Tadanori Yokoo Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, the work is among Yokoo’s most celebrated 1980s visuals—an athletic nude rendered in electric blues and infrared reds, surging skyward against a blazing summer sky.

Yokoo’s dazzling colour separations and kinetic brush textures capture the spirit of international youth sport while echoing the psychedelic pop-surrealist language that made him a global graphic-design icon. Commissioned by the Universiade Kobe Organising Committee, the poster announced the games (24 Aug – 4 Sep 1985) and became an enduring symbol of the city’s post-Expo cultural energy.

Exhibition note

From the exhibition “Requiem: Cats, Portraits and a Lone Painter”
— Lisa Lyon —
The collaboration between Lisa Lyon—pioneer of women’s bodybuilding—and Tadanori Yokoo spanned paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and sculpture. The poster created for Universiade Kobe features Lyon as the model; its nude depiction stirred considerable controversy at the time.
Tadanori Yokoo, “Universiade Kobe ’85” (Universiade Kobe Organising Committee), 1984.

There is a small margin tear that has been neatly repaired with tape. Once framed, the poster will display spectacularly—an affordable opportunity to own a key piece from Yokoo’s high-voltage 1980s period.

Please refer to the imagery (front and back) as this is the exact poster that is for sale.

It is over 40 years old!

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.