The 500 Arhats
, 2012,
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
, 302 x 10,000 cm
Private collection
Installation view: “Murakami – Ego,” Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Doha, 2012 Photo courtesy of GION © 2012 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Last week, Artitute was fortunate enough to attend an exclusive invitation to the closing of Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats Exhibition, which had been held at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in Japan. This exhibition is remarkable in a sense that it marked Murakami’s first solo museum exhibition in Japan in 14 years. Takashi Murakami. Photo courtesy of Okazumi Chika Born in 1962 in Tokyo, Takashi Murakami completed his doctoral work at Tokyo University of the Arts School of Fine Arts, becoming the first person at the university to earn a Ph.D. in Nihonga. Murakami is known in today’s mainstream culture for his corporate branding projects, which include collaborations with Louis Vuitton, VANS, Shu Uemura, and Roppongi Hills. Murakami has gone on to cement his presence in the art world, having held solo exhibitions and large-scale installations at a number of venues such as the Palace of Versailles,The Rockefeller Center and The Guggenheim, to name but a few. It [...]
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