"TADANORI YOKOO - Digital Art Exhibition", Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Offset, Original Release 1998, B2 Size (51 x 73cm)

Original Offset Print on Paper, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm)
As issued for the 1999 Digital Art Exhibition at the Okayama City Museum of Art, Japan

This is an original 1998 offset print by legendary Japanese graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo, created to promote his Digital Art Exhibition at the Okayama City Museum of Art. This work exemplifies Yokoo’s bold late-career shift toward digital aesthetics, erotic surrealism, and ironic hyperreality.

The composition is a fever dream of spliced pin-up figures—oversexualized, exaggerated, and distorted into absurd, puppet-like forms. At center, a sensuous tangle of women merges into a hybrid mass of soft flesh, wigs, and stylized limbs. They perch atop a monstrous stool with clawed legs, all set against a disorienting backdrop of bubble-textured blue, slick yellow bricks, and deep-pink faux-fur carpeting.

A red, centrally placed plaque bears the exhibition details—Tadanori Yokoo Digital Art Exhibition, 1999 4/4 (SUN)–9/26 (SUN)—turning institutional text into a provocative graphic element. The overall aesthetic draws from pornographic kitsch, surrealist collage, and post-internet textures, reflecting Yokoo’s dark humor and deep suspicion of digital purity.

Though the poster advertises a “digital art” exhibition, the print itself is analog—produced via offset lithography. This contradiction underscores Yokoo’s satire: using traditional mechanical printing to mock digital art’s promises of sleekness and perfection. The tactile quality of offset, with its smooth gradients and halftone textures, is central to the poster’s commentary.

This rare offset poster was issued in limited quantities for a single regional exhibition and was never reprinted. It remains largely undocumented outside institutional records and is rarely seen in the collector’s market. Near mint and unbacked, this example is preserved with exceptional clarity.

A provocative time capsule from Yokoo’s late '90s period, this piece bridges eroticism, parody, and digital critique—a must-have for collectors of Japanese graphic art, postwar surrealism, or Yokoo’s radical legacy.

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

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.