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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
+image: Gero Tan |
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.
Murakami's trilogy of “Superflat” exhibitions: Superflat (2000), Takashi Murakami: Kaikai Kiki (2002) and Little Boy (2005) have been on show in prominent museums around the world, including the Parco Gallery in Tokyo, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, and the Serpentine Gallery in London. In 2008 and 2009 the artist’s work is celebrated in ©MURAKAMI, a major retrospective now on view at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum until May. The exhibit has already been seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt. |
| ©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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