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Takashi Murakami | Tan Tan Bo, 2001
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
360 x 540 x 6.7 cm (141 3/4 x 212 5/8 x 2 5/8 inches)
Collection of John A. Smith and Victoria Hughes, London
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo.
©2001 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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Dumb Compass, 2008
Acrylic, platinum and gold leaf on canvas
299.7 x 234.4 cm (118 x 92 5/16 inches)
Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
©2008 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All
Rights Reserved.
ZuZaZaZaZaZa, 1994
Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas mounted on board
150 x 170 cm (59 1/16 x 66 15/16 inches)
Takahashi Collection
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
©1994 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights
Reserved.
Miss ko2 (Project ko2) (1997)
Wonder Festival, Summer 2000
Oil, acrylic, fiberglass, and iron
254 x 116.8 x 91.4 cm (100 x 46 x 36 inches)
Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Blum
& Poe, Los Angeles; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin,
Paris and Miami; and Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo.
Photo by Kazuo Fukunaga
©1997 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All
Rights Reserved.
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The World of Sphere, 2003
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
350 x 350 cm (137 13/16 x 137 13/16 inches)
Private collection, New York.
Courtesy of Marianne
Boesky Gallery, New York.
©2003 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
All Rights Reserved.
Inochi, 2004
FRP, steel, and lacquer
140 x 62.5 x 36.5 cm (55 1/8 x 24 5/8 x 14 3/8 inches)
The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collection
Courtesy of Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
©2004 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All
Rights Reserved.
727-727, 2006
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
300 x 450 x 7 cm (118 1/8 x 177 3/16 x 2 ¾ inches)
The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collection
Courtesy of Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
©2006 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All
Rights Reserved.
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©MURAKAMI
guggenheim museum bilbao
bilbao, spain
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In an art world that often seems to inexplicably pit imagination versus creativity, ideas that pop in the mind's eye often fall flaccid in the glare of gallery lights leaving the most directed of artists dazed and confused. Then there is Murakami. Long before Kanye West borrowed some of the artist's visual alchemy in his quest to project futuristic afro-hipness, Murakami had already established himself as the vision of things to come by combining a shrewd business sense with a keen sense of color and outrage. Continue
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| ©MURAKAMI runs until May 31, 2009 at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain. Visit the website at http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ for more information. |
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In the City and Beyond
bamako-7th african photography meeting
centre de cultura contemporània de barcelona
curator | pep subirós
+image: Camel Boy. Maazouz Azamour
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The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents the exhibition Bamako – 7th African Photography Meeting, curated by Pep Subirós, from 24 February to 1 June 2009. |
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Le Chef. Samuel Fosso |
Spirit of sisterhood. Aida Muluneh |
Sibu 2. Nontiskelelo Veleko
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As in previous years, Bamako has two main objectives. The first is to present an overview
of contemporary African photography, a particularly outstanding art on the creative scene of the continent, which is only now beginning to receive the attention its cultural and artistic vitality deserves. The second is to showcase the importance of the Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, a biennial event which, after seven outings, is now consolidated as one of Africa’s biggest artistic meeting points.
With these objectives as its base, and thanks to an agreement with the organizing bodies of the Rencontres in Bamako, the show at the CCCB presents the pick of the 2007 event: some 200 photographies and a selection of original videos, and printed and film documentation.
With the title “In the City and Beyond”, most of the seventh Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie de Bamako centres on the theme of the urban phenomenon. The urban phenomenon rather than the city because, over and beyond the usual reductive views that see cities as material, functional structures and devices, they are, in reality, fundamentally networks of relations between individuals and social groups. Continue
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Blue city. The Zero point series. Nadia Berkani
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Sudan’s future. Marie-Ange Bordas
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HOMAGE. Serge Jongué. “The purple city” series
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Bamako | 7th African Photography Meeting – “In the City and Beyond” is a production of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) in collaboration with CULTURESFRANCE / “Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie” of Bamako and the Ministry of Culture of Mali. Go to www.cccb.org for more information. |
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the shifting american flag: black artists (re)present america
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"The American flag serves as a very effective symbol of Americana. It encompasses all facets of American life from the social to the political, and is an exemplary tool for the Black artists commentary on Blackness within America. Simultaneously, it is an emblem recognizable not only within U.S. borders but also around the globe, making it an easy choice for communicating a complex message to the black community as a whole, not just black academia. The shifting American flag can conform to any construction of meaning." Continue
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| Ariana Jones is a student at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She produced The Shifting American Flag: Black Artists (Re)Present America as a project for her college art history course entitled Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)resentation. If you are a student and would like to share your projects with Nat Creole email Phillip Harvey at ph@natcreole.com. |
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