Takashi Murakami

See also: Murakami

Takashi Murakami , born in 1962 with Tōkyō, is an artist Japan board.

Biography

Takashi Murakami , born in 1962 with Tōkyō, is an artist Japan board.
Il dream initially to become realizer of cartoons. However it incrit in 1986 with a course of traditional painting nihon-ga , located between Japanese pictorial tradition of the time Edo (1650-1868) and Western references. He makes his studies with the Tōkyō University off Fine Arts and Music (department painting, 1986 - 1993). Its first personal exposure takes place in 1989. Since then, he asserts the practice of an autonomous Japanese art, of a “new japonism”, which is not imitation of Western art. Representative of the new Nipponese culture , it is one of the artists Japan most popular boards aujourd'hui.

Its Work

Artistic step

He creates monumental sculptures, paintings, wallpapers, and others objets.
Its works draw directly from the Japanese imagery Manga, which is diverted and amplified on topics or emergent of the questionings at first sight absent from will have kitsch and “Kawaii” (in Japanese, “nice”} of the cartoons Japan eases.

It crystallizes in its works and its projects, the new subculture of Tōkyō. He is the representative of an impregnated generation of imaginary of the Manga S and Otaku s*. At the wire of time, the characters put themselves at grouiller on various supports in two dimensions or are moulded, in various formats, the tiny one with the giant, out of glass fiber and are painted (Hiropon, 1997). They take also the shape of giant plastic balloons with the yelling colors and, inflated with the helium, which invade spaces of exposure (Mr.Dob, 1997). It thinks particularly of scenographies so that “the public has the impression to be surrounded by a multitude of cameras, even if it is opposite one only and even image”. A figure with famous person, Dobe (which took today for him “value of self-portrait”), returns in a repeated way (Dobe in the Strange Forest, 1999), just as the characters Kaikai and Kiki as well as reasons of mushrooms (Super Nova), flower and eyes (Jellyfish Eyes). At the end of the Eighties, it creates Hiropon Factory, become today the Kaikai Kiki Corporation. The company creates logos, Tee-shirts, reasons for clothing, all kinds of derivative products.

Regarded as one of the leaders of the néo-pop Japan board known as Superflat, he asserts the heritage of Warhol and the Pop American art , while analyzing the way in which the Japanese Art can find an autonomy vis-a-vis the Western model.

Takashi Murakami coordinates also exposures showing works of young artists of its country. Its activity of police chief of exposure is for him quite as important as its work of artist. When it organizes an exposure, it each time tries to collect the aspects to emphasize those of Japanese specificity. It tries to highlight the point of meeting between culture Japanese and Western, it wants to show aspects of its culture which the Westerners hate or do not include/understand. Chiho Aoshima, young artist Japan ease, is thus sponsored by Murakami , of which it shares the style.

Murakami in addition collaborated with the mark of leather working of luxury Louis Vuitton. It conceives for the collection of the year 2004, of new reasons combining its universe with those of this famous brand.

Principal works

  • Small pockets of album of Kanye West, 1996-200…

Exposures

Principal personal exposures

  • 2002-2003 :
Kaikai kiki, Serpentine Gallery, London.

  • 2001 :

- Summon monsters? open the door? heat? however die? museum off Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
-Takashi Murakami: made in Jpan, Museum off Fine Arts, Boston.
-Mushroom, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.
-Kaikai, kiki 2, Gallery Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris.

  • 2000 :

- Second Mission Project KO2, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
-Kaikai, Kiki: Superflat, carried out with Issey Miyake for the collection " Men" , spring-be, Tokyo.

  • 1999 :

The Meaning off the Nonsense off the Meaning, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Hand-barrow College, New York.

Principal collective exposures

  • 2002-2001 :
The 4th Santa Triennial Fe, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • 2001 :

- A popular art, Cartier Foundation for the contemporary art, Paris.
-My reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture off Japanesse Animation, Of the Monks Art Center, Iowa.
-Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin.

  • 2000 :

Beyond the spectacle, Center Pompidou, Paris.

  • 1999 :

New Modernism for has New Millenium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum off Modern Article.

Principal books and catalogs

  • Gendai Bijutsu Og Japanske Kunstinstitution, And Andet Japan, Ton O. Nielsen, 1996

  • Platform 99 :70 Young Visual Artists from Latin Asia years America, Canvas Foundation, 1999

  • Fresh cream, Amada Cruz, 2000

  • Japanese Art - from Modern to Contemporary, March 2000

  • Super Flat, Tokyo, 2000

  • My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture off Japanese Animation, Jeff Fleming, Brooklyn Museum off Art, 2001

  • Takashi Murakami, Kelmachter, Foundation Cartier, 2002

  • Little Boy: The Arts off Japan' S Exploding Subculture (Hardcover), Yale University Close, 2005

Random links:Battle of Caporetto | Days demon | Merkel cabinet | Championship of Europe of handball masculine 2006 | Guido Buffarini Guidi | Andrew_Melville