p1560326-takashi-murakemi-enco%ef%bc%9aar-our-side-bending-space-time-170x144-7cm-2015-acrylique-et-feuille-de-platione-sur-toile-montee-sur-chassis-en-aluminium
Self-Portrait Detail, enco: ar our side.bending space-time 170x144.7cm 2015 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
p1560298-takashi-murakemi-b1962-homage-to-francis-bacon-three-studies-for-portait-of-g-dyeron-lighe-ground-3-panneaux-100x100cm
Tribute to Bacon Series I - Three Studies for Portrait of G Dyer (on light ground) - 3 panels, each 100x100cm 2016 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
p1560299-takashi-murakemi-b1962-homage-to-francis-bacon-three-studies-of-lucian-freud-3-panneaux-197-8x147-5cm-chaque
Tribute to Bacon Series I - Three Studies of Lucian Freud - 3 panels, each 197.8x147.5cm 2016 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
p1560301-takashi-murakemi-b1962-homage-to-francis-bacon-second-version-of-triptych-3-panneaux-197-8x147-5cm-chaque
Tribute to Bacon Series I - Second Version of Triptych - 3 panels, each 197.8x147.5cm 2016 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
p1560301-3-takashi-murakemi-b1962-homage-to-francis-bacon-second-version-of-triptych-3-panneaux-197-8x147-5cm-chaque
Tribute to Bacon Series I - Second Version of Triptych Detail - Left, each 197.8x147.5cm 2016 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
p1560301-2-takashi-murakemi-b1962-homage-to-francis-bacon-second-version-of-triptych-3-panneaux-197-8x147-5cm-chaque
Tribute to Bacon Series I - Second Version of Triptych Detail - Center, each 197.8x147.5cm 2016 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
p1560301-4-takashi-murakemi-b1962-homage-to-francis-bacon-second-version-of-triptych-3-panneaux-197-8x147-5cm-chaque
Tribute to Bacon Series I - Second Version of Triptych Detail - Right, each 197.8x147.5cm 2016 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
p1560317-takashi-murakemi-b1962-727-to-be-determined-300x400cm-2016-acrylique-sur-toile-montee-sur-chassis-en-aluminium
727 (to be determined) 300x400cm 2016 Acrylic on canvas
p1560329-takashi-murakemi-a-picture-of-lives-wrigglig-in-the-forest-at-the-deep-end-of-the-universe-240x3255cm-31-panneaux-2015
A Picture of Lives Wriggling in the Forest at the Deep End of the Universe 240x3255cm - 31 panels 2015 Acrylic on canvas
p1560329-2-takashi-murakemi-a-picture-of-lives-wrigglig-in-the-forest-at-the-deep-end-of-the-universe-240x3255cm-31-panneaux-2015
A Picture of Lives Wriggling in the Forest at the Deep End of the Universe Detail 240x3255cm - 31 panels 2015 Acrylic on canvas
p1560329-5-takashi-murakemi-a-picture-of-lives-wrigglig-in-the-forest-at-the-deep-end-of-the-universe-240x3255cm-31-panneaux-2015
A Picture of Lives Wriggling in the Forest at the Deep End of the Universe Detail 240x3255cm - 31 panels 2015 Acrylic on canvas
p1560329-6-takashi-murakemi-a-picture-of-lives-wrigglig-in-the-forest-at-the-deep-end-of-the-universe-240x3255cm-31-panneaux-2015
A Picture of Lives Wriggling in the Forest at the Deep End of the Universe 240x3255cm Detail - 31 panels 2015 Acrylic on canvas
p1560342-takashi-murakemi-a-picture-of-lives-wrigglig-in-the-forest-at-the-deep-end-of-the-universe-ganesha-nature-s-239-9x525cm-5-panneaux-2015
A Picture of Lives Wriggling in the Forest at the Deep End of the Universe Detail 240x3255cm - 31 panels 2015 Acrylic on canvas
p1560306-2-takashi-murakemi-b1962-dragon-heads-gold-130-8x84x84-2cm-2015-feuille-d-or-sur-fibre-de-carbone-et-fibre-de-verre
dragon heads -gold 130.8x84x84.2cm 2015 feuille d or sur fibre de carbone et fibre de verre
p1560286-3-takashi-murakemi-b1962-murakemi-arhat-robot-title-to-be-determined-187x90-5x91cm-avec-socle-15x90-5x91cm-socle-seul-2016
Self-Statue Murakami Arhat Robot (title to be determined) 187x90.5x91cm - with base 15x90.5x91cm, base only 2016

Text / Chen Chi-Hsiang Location: Perrotin Gallery, Paris Dates: September 10 to December 23

Japanese top artist and Pop Art master Takashi Murakami (born 1962) is one of the most dazzling stars in today's global contemporary art scene. Murakami is an artist who unapologetically brings the entire context of Japanese culture onto the stage of contemporary art. Through his unique visual symbols, he expresses the beauty and cruelty of youth. Famous for his currently cute, bizarre, cartoon-style colorful art, he is deeply influenced by Japanese anime, video games, manga, and ukiyo-e. He excels at appropriating and transforming folk traditional images and mass media and culture, combining popular culture to construct his unique style of cute, sweet, humorous, and witty techniques. Between East and West, past and modern, folk and elite cultures, his strong cartoon and comic colors present not only the unique cultural connotations of contemporary Japan but also satirize the mediocrity and superficiality of the disillusioned reality of globalization.

Murakami stated clearly: "In the future society, customs, art, and culture will all become extremely two-dimensional like Japan... Today, Japanese video games and cartoon animations best express this characteristic, and these have powerful influence in world culture." His cute and bizarre comic-style images actually mock increasingly shallow and superficial popular culture—flat and lacking depth. It is precisely this seriousness and critique behind such playful mockery that makes him one of the hottest and most controversial artists internationally today. (Quote from Wikipedia)