Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami)

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I personally would like. (EA)
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TAKASHI MURAKAMI
Flower Ball (3-D), Kindergarten, 2007
Acrylic and silver gold leaf on canvas mounted on board
39-1/2 inches diameter (100.3 cm)

[Samvel]

Originally Posted by Eugene

I personally would like. (EA)

Me too. I read a biography, but the dates of birth did not understand, and in systems of automatic translation parsed, if not hard, people - anything can be put here translated biography of the artist.

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Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo. His debut as an artist and designer was held in 1991. That year was his solo exhibition "Takashi, Tamiya." In 1994, Takashi won the grand Rockefeller Foundation and was invited for this program in New York, where he soon opened his own studio. Shortly Takashi returned to Japan. He founded an organization that helps young designers, as well as factory Kaikai Kiki, producing products of its label. In 1998, Murakami was appointed professor of Art Academy of UCLA. He now lives and works in Japan and Paris.

Now Murakami - star of world art. Marc Jacobs invited him to create the bags from the collection of Spring 2008, His multimedia nstalyatsii can be seen on the show Louis Vuitton. The famous rapper Kanye West commissioned him to cover for her newly released album "Graduation". Takashi Murakami considers his work part of youth culture in Japan, based on a mango animation and the latest technologies.

[Евгений]

Collaborates with known gallerists Larry Gagosyanom ..

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Japanese artist Takashi Murakami announced his intention to return to traditional painting, says Tha Art Newspaper. The statement was made after the Murakami exhibition opening at Versailles, which provided installation and sculpture.

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Murakami for 11 years he studied painting at the Tokyo University of Art and Music. Nevertheless, the majority of his works are inspired by mass culture - comics, manga, video games. He worked with computer graphics. The last of his experiments with painting have been associated with physical intervention of the artist in the picture: Murakami daubed themselves with paint and wrapped in canvas.
Previously, the intention to return to traditional painting has announced another artist, famous for his work with a lot of assistants - Britain's Damien Hirst. Critics, however, his new paintings are not appreciated.
Versailles exhibition of Murakami provoked a storm of protest among some Frenchmen who defended the traditional view of the palace. Nevertheless, the protesters disrupt the opening of the event was not possible - as well as the exhibition of Jeff Koons, with great success the past in Versailles in 2008.
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In Versailles will show 22 works of Murakami, 11 of which were created specifically for the exhibition http://lenta.ru/news/2010/09/14/murakami/

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We in the National Museum on Friday opened the exhibition of Japanese 90.

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Director of Versailles, Jean-Jacques Ayyagon (Jean-Jacques Aillagon) announced that the Japanese master of pop art of Takashi Murakami will be the last modern artist, whose works appear in the royal apartments of the palace.

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He, however, stressed that this decision has nothing to do with the protests of traditionalist organizations claiming to psychedelic sculpture Murakami is not worthy of a demonstration at the residence of Louis XIV. According Ayyagona, contemporary art has come to Versailles, but show it to be somewhere else - most likely in the Orangery, the Versailles gardens or in the building of the Royal Opera - only because it used the royal chambers once again been interesting.
Visitors to Versailles can see 22 works Murakami, among which seven sculptures and one video. Half of the works created specially for the exhibition. The exhibits were borrowed from the four collections representative at Versailles refused to say whether the number in their collection of French billionaire Francois Pinault (Francois Pinault). In 2008, the latter gave to the exhibition Koons six works that were greeted with attacks by the French press, who claimed that he fills that exhibits price.

What about all this fuss thinks himself Murakami? .. In an official press release he states: "I'm the Cheshire Cat, who meets Alice in Wonderland devilish smile and zabaltyvaet her until she wanders through the palace."