This original 1991 exhibition poster was designed by Japanese artist and graphic designer Kijuro Yahagi for Marcel Duchamp Graphics, presented at BIGI Art Space in Kyoto. The exhibition ran from 19 April to 25 August 1991 and explored Marcel Duchamp’s works on paper and other printed creations.
Yahagi builds the composition around a dramatically enlarged detail of Duchamp’s celebrated L.H.O.O.Q., his irreverent transformation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa through the addition of a moustache and goatee. The tightly cropped face, visible halftone texture and restrained typography create an image that feels both familiar and deliberately unsettling.
The exhibition inaugurated BIGI Art Space and brought together drawings, prints, multiples, books and related graphic works from BIGI’s extensive collection of Duchamp material. The poster therefore serves not only as a striking piece of Japanese graphic design but also as a document of an important exhibition devoted to one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists.
Born in 1952, Kijuro Yahagi is a multidisciplinary Japanese artist whose practice encompasses graphic design, photography, conceptual art, architecture and sculpture. His intelligent use of scale, visual interruption and photographic reproduction is particularly effective here, echoing Duchamp’s own fascination with appropriation, transformation and the questioning of artistic conventions.
An original exhibition poster of exceptional visual presence, this 1991 work brings together Japanese graphic design and the provocative legacy of Marcel Duchamp. Its monumental close-up, sophisticated surface and significant exhibition history make it especially appealing to collectors of modern art, museum posters and post-war Japanese design.
Original poster
Exhibition - Design - Japan
Bigi Art Space
Good condition, light folds
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