"TADANORI YOKOO - LaChapelle Land, Photographs by David LaChapelle (Style A)", Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Silk Screen 1997, SIGNED, Ultra Rare, Size (c.73 x 98 cm) A

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This is an original signed Japanese silk screen poster printed in the 1997. This poster is ultra rare and is displayed in the world`s most prestigious galleries such as MoMA in New York City. It is very difficult / almost impossible to find in any condition. This poster is in near mint condition.

“LaChapelle Land” & “First Planning” – hand‑picked from the private archive of publishers Nicholas & Rhea Callaway.

This poster was gifted by Tadanori Yokoo to the Callaway`s. Direct provenance – each sheet comes from the Callaway family’s flat‑file and has never been on the open market. First Planning copy is even inscribed “For Yukine and Nicholas Callaway” in graphite along the lower margin.

Offered here is one of only three surviving Tadanori Yokoo posters personally commissioned by the Callaways to celebrate the publication of LaChapelle Land (Callaway Editions, 1996).

Tadanori Yokoo – the Japanese graphic‑design icon whose work sits in the MoMA, V&A and Tate collections – created these riotously colourful compositions by collaging David LaChapelle’s trans‑pop photographs with his own psychedelic visual language.

Museum quality & rarity – Yokoo produced the posters in a tiny promotional run (believed to be <200). Very few were signed; virtually none were released outside the publisher’s circle.

Printing – dense, high‑pigment Japanese silkscreen on thick, uncoated art paper; colours remain ultra‑saturated and the black key plate is razor‑sharp.

Condition – stored flat since 1996, no folds, only the faintest edge handling; suitable for direct exhibition framing or archival linen‑backing.

MOMA - https://www.moma.org/collection/works/6061

David LaChapelle and Yokoo were destined for creative collaboration: LaChapelle's portrait photography crafts bold, surreal, and sublime scenarios, while Yokoo’s work in lithography (among other mediums) brings to life psychedelic, existential, and transcendent scenes. For the 1996 monograph LaChapelle Land: Photographs, Yokoo designed the box and cover, embracing LaChapelle’s Pop Art style. The result is a vibrant, candy-coated scene filled with playful chaos, sexual innuendo, and striking neon colors. This piece is a hand-signed silkscreen print.

Silkscreen printing cannot produce the subtle tones that off-white or primary color printing can. Furthermore, although photoengraving is possible, it is crude and coarse, and only monochrome is possible; color photographs cannot be transferred. This means that this printing method can only produce flat, unshaded color divisions, like ukiyo-e woodblock prints, or photoengraving and printing methods that intentionally create a rough look, or a combination of these two, or a mixture of the two. Therefore, in today's world, when advanced reproduction techniques and printing methods have been developed, silkscreen printing can be said to be an extremely primitive and imperfect printing method. However, it is precisely because of this primitive imperfection that silkscreen printing has been highly developed.

It is a medium that retains a handcrafted, intimate feel like woodblock prints or lithographs, not found in offset or primary color printing, which are more common printing methods. Such handcrafted printing methods are themselves subcultural, and are therefore suitable as a means of printing posters for subcultural small theater groups, in the sense that the medium is the message.

The fact that Yokoo Tadanori's zine-like posters were quickly recognized as artistic was of course due to the content of the images, but it is also true that the silkscreen, which is in a sense an artistic medium, contributed to his success. Yokoo's aims of artistry, agitation for popular culture, and subcultural zine-like communication were fully realized by choosing the medium of silkscreen.

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

It is over 28 years old!

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.