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Takashi Murakami
TAKASHI MURAKAMI: I DO NOT RULE MY DREAMS... Skulls Japanese Pop Art Red Modern

2011

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I DO NOT RULE MY DREAMS, MY DREAMS RULE ME Date of creation: 2011 Medium: Offset lithograph with silver and UV varnish on paper Edition number: 196/300 Size: 66.6 x 56.6 cm Condition: Brand new, in mint conditions and never framed Observations: Offset lithograph with silver on paper hand signed and numbered by Takashi Murakami of a limited edition of 300. Published by Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd, Japan. Takashi Murakami's work is marked by the consequences that the World War II had to his country. Death and life speeches, colive with a similar strong speech about how traditional Japanese culture merges with western culture and the way they have built today's Japan. His work confronts these terms with vivid and bright colors, which give a hint about the optimistic inner self of the artist. ABOUT THE ARTIST Takashi Murakami (Tokyo, 1962) is a contemporary artist whom, through painting and digital or commercial mediums, has developed a language that blends popular culture with formal elements of Japanese traditional art. He applied for the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo where he received his doctorate in Nihonga, a discipline that blends the traditional study of east and west. In 1990 Murakami begins his career as a contemporary artist and in 1993 he created Mr. DOB, a self-portrait. Develops a new artistic style he calls "Superflat" which is characterized by the bi-dimensionality and the fusion of traditional Japanese art, anime, manga and Pop Art. Soon he begins to be called as the Japanese Andy Warhol. In 1998 he opened a study of the Hiropon Factory in Brooklyn and begins to participate in exhibitions in America. In 2000 he organizes an exhibition entitled "Superflat" at the Parco Gallery in Tokyo that will also visit the MOCA in Los Angeles. In this exhibition presents the anime culture as part of the artistic and cultural heritage of Japan. Murakami founded Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd in 2001 and opens branch offices in both Tokyo and New York. In 2002 takes place the exhibition "Takashi Murakami: Kaikai Kiki" at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and at the Serpentine Gallery in London. The following year he installed at Rockefeller Center in New York his biggest public sculpture, "Reversed Double Helix" and begins to develop works for Louis Vuitton. Between 2008 and 2009 it's being organized a retrospective entitled "Murakami" at the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Museum fur Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Takashi Murakami's work always turns around World War II. Joy and death is a theme the artist comes back to unavoidably and flowers and skulls are representative of that. The way they mingle around together in harmony makes us think they are always present no matter the background or particular situation that an individual has. On the other side, according to the artist, his Flowers and Skull series are opposite to still lifes. Still lifes are intended to capture the moment and a situation so that it can never die. Murakami's Flowers and Skulls series may seem very similar but they are never the same; they are all about the idea of change and evolution. Similar Styles and Artists: KAWS, Damien Hirst, Bearbrick, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey (OBEY), Javier Calleja. Pop Art, Contemporary Art, Anime
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