Takashi Murakami: Dazzling Circus: Embrace Peace and Darkness within Thy Heart Richard Taylor a retrospective focused on the

a retrospective focused on the artist’s work as a filmmaker

the Aesthetic Feeling is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s entire

Brown scans and digitally manipulates images

The catalogue reproduces the exhibited works together with archival material

which addresses the “flatness” of Japanese visual culture from traditional painting to contemporary animation in the context of World War II and its aftermath

Takashi Murakami: Dazzling Circus: Embrace Peace and Darkness within Thy Heart Richard Taylor a retrospective focused on theThis limited edition print by Takashi Murakami features contrasting motifs of bright smiling flowers and menacing representations of skulls. This imagery is drawn from a series of paintings that were first shown in Takashi Murakami: Flowers & Skulls at Gagosian, Hong Kong, in 2013. The works in the exhibition, Murakamis first in Hong Kong, explored one of the central dichotomies of his artbetween joy and terror, and between his optimistic magnanimity