Gagosian Gallery

PAST EXHIBITION

Takashi Murakami

May 1, 2007—June 2, 2007

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Takashi Murakami. This is Murakami’s first exhibition with the gallery.

Beneath its bright and playful appearance, Murakami’s art is at work challenging established dichotomies. In his approach, high art and popular culture, East and West, present and past, humor and gravity, skepticism and belief are all sides of the same coin. Visually, his work merges the dystopic worlds of popular contemporary Japanese animé and manga cartoons with the ultra-refined techniques of traditional Japanese art. Operationally, he combines the work of the guild with that of the factory and production studio, resulting in a staggering body of work ranging from rare masterpieces to inexpensive, mass-produced commodities.

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