In Murakami's paintings such as Shunga: Gibbons and Shunga: Bow Wow, graphic depictions of exaggerated and engorged male and female genitals are set against delirious backgrounds of image and pattern. The Shunga theme continues into life-size sculptures, such as Nurse Ko2, a leggy, busty verticality figure with a sexy uniform, or 3-Meter Girl, an absurdist composition that pushes form and content to extremes. She stands with feet spread wide, her petite body against the whooping pendular breasts whose size and weight threaten to topple her.
Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo. His most recent large-scale exhibition was held at the Chateau de Versailles, France in 2010. He lives and works in Tokyo, New York, and Los Angeles.
3-Meter Girl, 2011
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Photography by Mike Bruce/ Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
All Artworks @Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights reserved
Photography by Mike Bruce/ Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
All Artworks @Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Photography by Muir Vidler / Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Nurse Ko2
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Photography by Mike Bruce/ Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
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Photography by Mike Bruce/ Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Big Box PK02
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Photography by Mike Bruce/ Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
All Artworks @Takashi Murakami/ Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Photography by Mike Bruce/ Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Overview
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Photography by Mike Bruce / Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, London
Takashi Murakami
June 28 - August 5, 2011
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