#Murakami takashi

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Jellyfish Eyes, Akashi Murakami, 2001

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Museum morning

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Murakami Takashi: Mononoke Kyoto

Finally went and saw the Murakami Mononoke Kyoto show that’s been up for half a year or so. I generally tend to think of Murakami as over-hyped, if that’s the right word – not that his work isn’t fun, creative, interesting, smart, but just that surely there are so many other artists out there who a museum could be highlighting. Much like Murakami Haruki over in literature – in the past X years, I…

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Takashi Murakami - Unfamiliar People - Swelling of Monsterised Human Ego

Book review:

Spamming kindergarteneqse flowers with happy smiley faces, seemingly choosing colour combinations by how highly the contrast clashes, absurdly sexual male and female characters. Takashi Murakami does it all. Now also branching into NFT art. His exhibition duly projects a cheerfully psychedelic, cute but ferocious vibe.

From September 2023 to February 2024, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco held an exhibition featuring the recent decade of Murakami's works. A follow-on installation of sorts only recently concluded in July. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition is this catalogue by the same name "Takashi Murakami: Unfamiliar People - Swelling of Monsterised Human Ego".

This large, oversized A4 hardback features a compound cover. The underlay consists of nothing but the exhibition title in exaggerated, cartoon-like balloon letters. Lurid but completely in-character with an on-point palette of bright solid colours on a hot pink background. Overlaid is a full wraparound clear plastic jacket with the anchor feature of saw toothed aliens in suits. Loud, manic and unsubtly subtle. The book does touch on works from earlier than 2013.

Takashi Murakami is also the pioneer of the Superflat art movement. Ironically, the term has been observed as expanding to greater dimensions beyond the initial meaning. The visual style it defines can actually be retroactively ascribed to the style of much of Japan's historic art. There is the flattening of time - in the sense Murakami has been critiqued as taking art styles and subjects from different eras and combining them into a single work. He also flattens his business model; conversion of his art pieces into consumer-friendly merchandise seems to be highly efficient and streamlined.

Shelf: 702.16 MUR Murakami : unfamiliar people, swelling of monsterized human ego. edited by Laura W. Allen.

San Francisco : Asian Art Museum, 2023. ISBN: 9780300273182 (hardcover)

141 pages : chiefly coloUr illustrations ; 32 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents:

Monsters on the mind / Laurra W. Allen.

Hiropon reloaded : Takashi Murakami and the transformation of otaku subculture / Hiroko Ikegami.

Clone X : the key to the future / Masako Shiba.

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Takashi Murakami: I Know Not, I Know Not (2010)

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Murakami Takashi Panda Geant executed in 2009, this work is from an edition of 3 and has 2 artist proofs acrylic boa, urethane, FRP and steel on corian base Panda: 205 (H) by 193 by 111 cm.; 80¾ (H) by 76 by 43¾ in.

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Takashi Murakami "Mononoke Kyoto" Exhibition in Kyoto Japan Features 170 Artworks

The big Takashi Murakami art exhibition "Mononoke Kyoto", featuring 170 of the popular Japanese artist's works, is open through September 1, 2024 at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto, Japan.

Exhibition Website

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Takashi Murakami at Kyoto city KYOCERA Museum of Art

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Zenday after the Louis Vuitton Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show during Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 2, 2023.

Style: Law Roach. Zendaya in an archival Louis Vuitton babydoll blouse from the brand's Spring 2004 collection by Marc Jacobs. She accessorized the look with strappy white stilettos and a coveted and rare bag from the house's collaboration with Takashi Murakami.

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LH in +44 x Murakami

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Powerpuffjeans x Murakami

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Takashi Murakami — Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud. Homage to Francis Bacon (acrylic & gold leaf & canvas, mounted on aluminum frame, 2016)

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Takashi Murakami

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Godzilla, 2019

Acrylic on canvas mounted on wood panel