Takashi Murakami

Japoniako artista garaikide bat da. Arte ederrak lantzen ditu (hala nola, pintura eta eskultura), baita merkataritzaren munduan ere sortzen ditu produktuak (hala nola moda, merkantziak, eta animazioa) eta batzuen eta besteen arteko mugak lausotzen apropos saiatzen da.

Formakuntza eta estiloa 
Nihonga pintura japoniar tradizionalean trebatu zen, usadiozko teknika eta gai japoniarretan arreta jartzen duen estiloan, eta Tokioko Arte Eder eta Musika Unibertsitate Nazionalean doktoregoa lortu zuen 1983an. 1980ko hamarkadaren amaieratik nabarmendu den neo pop japoniarraren belaunaldiko artista da. Haren lanetan jaioterriko egungo herri-kulturaren osagaiak erabili arren, esaterako, animea (animazioa) eta manga (komikia), ez ditu alde batera utzi usadio japoniarrekoak eta besteak beste honako hauek erabiltzen ditu: budismoaren ikonografia, XII. mendeko pintura-bilkariak, zen pinturak eta XVIII. mendeko Edo garaiko pintura bitxia delakoa.

Murakamiren lanek arte jasoaren eta herri-kulturaren arteko beste erlazio bat sortzen dute, eta bere kontzeptuan artea ekonomiaren parte da. Eta bere artea zabaltzeko, enpresa bat darabil hain zuzen, Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., honakoak egiteko: merchandisin produktuen kate-ekoizpena, animazio-filmen produkzioa, eta hainbat enpresek eskatzen dizkioten diseinuak, adibidez, Louis Vuitton etxeak eskatutakoak.

Exhibitions 
1989
 Exhibition L'Espoir: Takashi Murakami, Galerie Ginza Surugadai, Tokyo
 New Works, Café Tiens!, Tokyo
1991
 Art Gallery at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
 Galerie Aoi, Osaka-
 One Night Exhibition, August 23 Röntgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo
 I Am Against Being For It Galerie Aries, Tokyo
1993
 A Very Merry Unbirthday!, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima.
 Gallery Nasubi, Tokyo
 A Romantic Evening, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya.
 Wild Wild, Röntgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo
 NICAF'92, Shirashi Contemporary Art Inc., Yokohama.
1994
 Fujisan, Gallery Koto, Okayama.
 Which is tomorrow? - Fall in love -, SCAI The Bathhouse, Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Inc., Tokyo
 Azami Kikyo, Ominaeshi, Gallery Aoi, Osaka.
 A Romantic Evening, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya.
1995
 Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
 NIJI (Rainbow), Gallery Koto, Okayama.
 Crasy Z, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
 Mr. Doomsday Balloon, Yngtingagatan 1, Estokolmo, Suedia
1996
 727, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
 727, Aoi Gallery Osaka.
 Feature Inc., New York
 Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
 Galerie Koto, Okayama.
 Konnichiwa, Mr. DOB, Kirin Art Plaza, Osaka.
 A Very Merry Unbirthday, To You, To Me!, Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo
1997
 Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
 Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, Kalifornia.
 Galerie Koto, Okayama.
 The Other Side of a Flash of Light, HAP Art Space, Hiroshima.
1998
 Hiropon Project KoKo_Pity Sakurako Jet Airplane Nos. 1-6, Feature Inc., New York.
 Back Beat : Super Flat, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
 My Lonesome Cowboy, Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, Kalifornia.
 Moreover, DOB raises his hand, Sagacho bis, Tokyo
1999
 DOB in the strange forest, Nagoya Parco Gallery.
 Patron, Marunuma Art Park Gallery, Japonia.
 Second Mission PROJECT KO2, Hiropon Factory, Japonia.
 Dob's Adventures in Wonderland, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
 The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bart College, New York
 Superflat, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
 Love & DOB, Gallery KOTO, Okayama.
2000
 727 Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, AEB.
 Second mission Project KO2, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
 Kaikai Kiki: Superflat, Issey Miyake for Men, Tokyo
2001
 Wink, Grand Central Station, New York
 Mushroom, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
 KaiKai KiKi, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
 Summon monsters? open the door? heal? or die?, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
 Takashi Murakami: Made in Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, AEB.
2002
 Kawaii, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; Serpentine Gallery, Londres.
2003
 Superflat Monogram, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
 Superflat Monogram, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
 Double Helix Reversal, Rockefeller Center, New York
2004
 Funny Cuts, Stuttgart Museum of Art, Stuttgart, Alemania
 Takashi Murakami: Inochi, Blum & Poe Gallery, New York
2005
 Opening of Gallery Extension, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
 Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Pop Culture, Japan Society, New York
 Outdoor Banner Installation, Public Art Fund, New York
2006
 The Pressure Point of Painting, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
2007
 ©Murakami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, AEB.
2008
 Davy Jone’s Tear, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, AEB.
 ©Murakami, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Alemania,.
 Prints, "My First Art Series", Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo
2009
 I Love Prints and So I Make Them, ARKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
 I Love Prints and So I Make Them, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo
 Takashi Murakami Paints Self Portraits, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
 ©Murakami, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, Bilbo, Euskal Herria.
2010
 Solo Exhibition, Gagosian Gallery, Erroma.
 MURAKAMI VERSAILLES, Palace of Versailles, Versailles, Frantzia,
2011
 Beyond Limits, Chatsworth, Ingalaterra,
 Homage to Yves Klein, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
 A History of Editions, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
 Solo Exhibition, Gagosian Gallery, Londres.
2012
 Ego, ALRIWAQ Doha Exhibition Space, Qatar.
2013
 Arhat, Blum & Poe, Culver City, AEB.
 Jelly Fish Eyes International Premiere: Anime Film, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles.
2014
 Deconstruction & Postmodernism - Session I, DOP Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela, January 2014 - March 2014
2015-2016
 The 500 Arhats, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 
2017-2018
 Murakami by Murakami, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norvegia.
 The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, AEB.
 Under the Radiation Falls, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Mosku.
 The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Kanada.

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Japoniako artistak
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