Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama) presents the first large-scale public show of the renowned contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s private collection centered around contemporary art.
While energetically pursuing his creativity as an artist, Murakami has also been active as a curator, gallerist, and producer. In recent years, in particular, he has become an avid collector, acquiring a wide variety of artworks in and out of Japan with a perceptive eye and unique aesthetic sensibility.
This little known collection, while loosely focused on contemporary art, includes old Japanese and Asian artifacts, European antiques, contemporary pottery, and folk art and crafts.
This exhibition of Murakami’s unique collection, with its overwhelming quantity and diversity, will provide an insight into the sources of the artist’s aesthetic ideas, the nature of art and desire, and the mechanisms that create value in contemporary society, while also encouraging viewers to question art’s conventional context.
Murakami has come to be known worldwide for his extremely polished works blending contemporary art and traditional Japanese painting, high culture and pop culture, East and West. He has held a number of solo exhibitions at prestigious museums around the world.
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection – From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer
30.01.2016 – 03.04.2016
Image courtesy of Yokohama Museum of Art
Otani Workshop, Bear (sister), Bear (brother), 2011. Photo by Akihide Mishima. Courtesy of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Kishin Shinoyama, Mishima Yukio, 1968
Anselm Reyle, Untitled, 2011. Photo by Hideyuki Motegi. Courtesy of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd
Anselm Kiefer, Merkaba, 2010. Photo by Charles Duprat. Courtesy of Anselm Kiefer, Gagosian Gallery
Frank Benson, Juliana, 2015. Courtesy of the artist
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