Takashi Murakami

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Takashi Murakami (born February 1, 1962) is a Japanese contemporary artist.

He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture), as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation), and is known for blurring the boundaries between high and low art.

He coined the phrase "superflat" to refer to both the aesthetic features of the Japanese artistic tradition and the essence of post-war Japanese culture and society, as well as Murakami's artistic style and other Japanese artists influenced.

He was the initiator and curator of Geisai, the biannual art fair.

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Life and career

Murakami was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He was an early adopter of anime and manga (Japanese cartoons and comics respectively), and aspired to work in animation from the start. He studied at the University of the Arts in Tokyo to acquire the writing skills required to become an animator, but he eventually concentrated in Nihonga, the 'traditional' style of Japanese painting that incorporates traditional Japanese artistic traditions, techniques, and subjects. In 1988, he earned his master's degree. Though he would continue to earn a Ph.D. in Nihonga (1993), he gradually became disillusioned with the country's exclusive, highly political culture and began to explore more contemporary artistic styles, magazines, and strategies.

Murakami was dissatisfied with Japan's state of contemporary art, suspecting it to be "a deep appropriation of Western trends." Therefore, a large part of his early work was produced in the spirit of social critique and satire. The legendary My Lonesome Cowboy, a companion to Murakami's earlier Hiropon, appears in an article describing and describing all of Murakami's works. The sculpture is that of a naked anime character with blond spiky hair and a spiral trail of semen circling him. This piece is Murakami's most costly piece to date, selling for $60,100,000 at Sotheby's New York auction in 2008. Performance art (Osaka Mixer Project, 1992), parodies of the "message" art popular in Japan in the early 1990s (Dobozite Oshamanbe, 1993), and experimental works (e.g. Randoseru Project (91), 1991. He started designing his own pop icon, "Mr. DOB," which would later develop into a form of self-portraiture, and the first of many endlessly evolving and repeating patterns seen throughout his career. Despite gaining notice, several of his early pieces were not well received in Japan.

Murakami earned a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council in 1994 and spent a year in New York City with the PS1 International Studio Program. During his stay, he was introduced to and heavily inspired by Western contemporary artists, like Anselm Kiefer, and especially the simulationism of artists, such as Jeff Koons. He founded a small studio that, along with the Hiropon Factory in Japan, became the precursor to his company Kaikai Kiki. He will continue to develop the main ideas behind his artistic practice and start exhibiting regularly at major galleries and museums throughout Europe and North America after returning to Japan.

Murakami introduced his "Superflat" theory in the catalogue for a group exhibition of the same name that he curated for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2000. According to the belief, flat, 2-dimensional images from Japanese art history have a long tradition in manga and anime. This style stands out from the western approach in that it emphasizes surface and use of flat planes of color. In addition, the Superflat served as a commentary on postwar Japanese society, in which, Murakami claims, cultural class and popular taste have 'flattened,' resulting in a society with no 'high' and 'low'. With the exhibitions "Coloriage" (2002, Fondation Cartier de l'art contemporain, Paris) and "Underground: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture," Little Boy," the theory inspired his art and he expanded on it, as well as "Little Boy: The Exploding Subculture" (2005, Japan Society, New York), which were titled after Little Boy. These helped Japan's less well-known creative culture abroad, and such curatorial projects would have a central role in Murakami's multifaceted artistic practice. Murakami's curatorship has widened to include Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Uedaa, and Otani Workshop at Blum & Poe, New York (2016) and Juxtapox x Superflat at Vancouver Art Gallery (2016).

Murakami's method, according to the Superflat model, involves repackaging elements that are traditionally "low" or subcultural and displaying them in the "high-art" market. He then repackages his "high-art" works as merchandise, such as plush toys and T-shirts, making them more affordable.

Murakami's Hiropon Factory, his production workshop, opened in 1996 in order to operate on a larger scale and in a more diverse range of media. His model inherits the atelier style that has long existed in Japanese painting, printing, and sculpture, and is also used in anime and manga businesses, including Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. Hiropon Factory was established as Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. in 2001.

Murakami's long-running partnership with luxury brand Louis Vuitton began in 2002, on the invitation of designer Marc Jacobs. He began by supplying artwork that was used in the creation of a number of handbags. The monogram re-imagined the company's monogram, and was a huge commercial success. Despite the fact that he had previously collaborated with fashion designers such as Issey Miyake Men by Naoki Takizawa, Louis Vuitton's work with Louis Vuitton made him well-known for blurring the line between 'high art' and commercialism. It also gave him celebrity in his home country, Japan, where he was also elevated to celebrity status.

Murakami produced the cover art for rapper Kanye West's album Graduation in 2007 and directed an animated music video for his West's song "Good Morning." He also contributed to the West's 2018 compilation album Kids See Ghosts with Kid Cudi.

Murakami's "Good Morning" and "Good Morning" projects will later'reappropriate' these projects by incorporating their imagery into his paintings and sculptures, blurring the boundaries between art and commercial branding and even questioning the existence of such a boundary.

Murakami said no one was asked about straddling the line between art and commercial products:

Murakami has worked with a variety of designers and industries in Japan, one of which is the image characters he created for the major urban real estate development Roppongi Hills.

Pharrell Williams, a music performer, unveiled a collaborative sculpture with Murakami at Art Basel in 2009, which Williams said "illustrates the metaphor of value."

Murakami and McG directed a short Akihabara Majokko Princess, where Kirsten Dunst sings a cover of The Vaint's 1980 hit "Turning Japanese." This was on view at the Tate Modern museum in London from October 1, 2009 to January 17, 2010. Dunst is seen performing around Akihabara, a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, by the time.

Murakami produced a music video for the remix of Hatsune Miku's "Last Night, Good Night (Re:Dialed)" in May 2014, with Pharrell and Kz of livetune. The team was assembled by Vice and Intel, according to the YouTube channel The Creators Project. Murakami's anime-inspired illustrations from his first film Jellyfish Eyes were also printed on a T-shirt by Billionaire Boys Club, which was co-founded by Pharrell and Nigo.

Takashi collaborated with Vans in the fall of 2015. This collaboration was named Vault By Vans x Takashi Murakami Collection, according to the artist. For an illuminated period and only in select stores, Vans' artwork was on Vans' classic slip on, clothing, and skateboard decks. His artwork mainly consisted of his popular skull and flower designs.

Takashi Murakami collaborated with fashion designer Virgil Abloh on a series of artworks in 2018, bringing the fashion world to the art world but ultimately leaving both to create something new. In an interview with Takashi and Virgil, who are on the cover, they discuss their work and their collaboration at length.

Billie Eilish produced one of two official music videos for people in March 2019, one of which was directed and animated by Takashi Murakami. Murakami revealed in a press release that the anime-style video, which was animated using motion capture technology, took eight months for him to produce. The video opens with an animated version of Eilish, dressed in a neon jacket and shorts, before morphing into a spider-like monster that wreaks havoc on a miniature city. The video includes the "Blohsh," Eilish's signature symbol, as well as Murakami's flowers. Juice WRLD, a late rapper, approached Murakami several weeks before his untimely death, as a result of which, the project will never be completed.

J Balvin's album Colores, featuring album cover designs and artwork by Takashi Murakami, was released in March 2020. To celebrate the debut of his album, Murakami-designed artwork was added to a line.

Supreme Unobstructed Artwork from Murakami's work in April 2020. HELP USA raised the money in order to assist youth and families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Murakami's first retrospective exhibition Murakami's voyages from the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles (its multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary art), to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, and lastly the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. In Seven Days in the Art World, Sarah Thornton chronicles the early stages of the exhibition's development, which included in-depth curatorial visits between Murakami and leading museum figures. The exhibits attracted a lot of attention, including a fully working Louis Vuitton boutique as one of the exhibits.

Murakami was named one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People" in 2008, the only visual artist to be included.

Murakami, the third contemporary artist and first Japanese to visit the Palace of Versailles in France, packed 15 rooms and the park with his sculptures, paintings, a decorative carpet, and lamps.

Google unveiled a doodle called "First Day of Summer" on June 21, 2011. A Winter Solstice doodle for the Southern Hemisphere was accompanied by this doodle.

Murakami opened an exhibition in Doha, Qatar, in February 2012. This included old works as well as new ones created specifically for the exhibition. Among the new ones is a 100-meter long wall mural portraying the suffering of the Japanese people after the Fukushima nuclear tragedy.

Hatsune Miku appeared in a PV directed by Murakami for Redial in March 2013.

In April 2013, Murakami's first feature film was shown in theaters around Japan. Jellyfish Eyes (originally titled "Me me no kurage) is a live-action film starring CGI characters created by Murakami called Friend.

Murakami was recording an original folk song collection influenced by the Japanese band Happy End (band).

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