Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Visual Tranquility - Takashi Murakami

The exhibition runs from April 5th to July 13th.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238 - 6052
(718) 638-5000




"That I may transcend, that a universe my heart may unfold" Murakami, 2007
Each time I visit any art exhibition I go with the intention of gaining insight and design possibilities. Murakami's exhibit was especially inspirational because he coined his own style and gained international acclaim for it. What I like most about his works is the way he homogenize the colors - the colors are clearly different, but they are uniform.
Murakami is one of the most influential and acclaimed artists to have emerged from Asia in the late twentieth century, creating a wide-ranging body of work that consciously bridges fine art, design, animation, fashion, and popular culture.
The exhibition © MURAKAMI explores the self-reflexive nature of Murakami’s oeuvre by focusing on earlier work produced between 1992 and 2000 in which the artist attempts to explore his own reality through an investigation of branding and identity, as well as through self-portraiture created since 2000. Two works examining these subjects were a part of a group show, My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, presented at the Brooklyn Museum in 2001.

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