In addition to his role as an artist, he is active as a curator, lecturer, event coordinator, radio host, newspaper columnist, and manager for emerging artists. Under the guise of his international corporation Kaikai Kiki, Co., Ltd., Murakami masterminds a remarkable constellation of activities. Murakami’s design concepts, processes, and quality standards are thus symptomatic of this context. He then returns these creations to the marketplace through the production of various erchandise-such as key chains, stickers, and T-shirts, among other items.Įmerging after the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy and the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989, Murakami’s practice is born from a breakdown between production and consumption, image and value, and self and nation. Drawing upon imagery and personalities found in his day-to-day life-in both the United States and Japan-Murakami envisions characters with both fantastical and spiritual iconographies, which he painstakingly brings to life in painting, film, installation, or sculptural form. Much like Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, Murakami’s practice is not only referential of pop culture, but his entire life is symbiotic with pop itself, creating a reciprocal relationship between high art and mass culture. We are delighted to be hosting such a varied program of events to explore and celebrate this extraordinary artist's practice." said MOCA Director Jeremy Strick.īorn in Japan in the early 1960s, Murakami belongs to a generation of artists whose pictorial language brings together motifs linked to popular culture and the formal qualities of traditional Japanese art, such as flatness, pattern, and ornamentation.Īs one of the most influential artists to emerge from postwar Japan, Murakami has created a vast body of work that has reached broad audiences-from art collectors to video-game obsessed teenagers. "MOCA is presenting the most comprehensive Murakami retrospective to date, as well as introducing the latest in an extraordinary collection of works from this seminal, Japanese artist. Organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, the exhibition features more than 90 works from the internationally acclaimed artist, some of which will be unveiled to the public for the very first time. ©MURAKAMI is a diverse and substantial exhibition spanning Takasi Murakami's entire career, combining early and newly completed sculptures, installations and paintings. The following text is from the Museum of Contemporary Art: Photographs are by Brian Forest except where stated otherwise. All artwork © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
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