Takashi Murakami: Dazzling Circus: Embrace Peace and Darkness within Thy Heart
Artwork © 2019 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
This 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, Murakami’s first in Hong Kong, explored one of the central dichotomies of his art—between joy and terror, his optimistic magnanimity as an artist and his pessimistic perspective on postwar Japan.
Artist: Takashi Murakami
Producer: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Date: 2019
Medium: Offset print
Dimensions: 27 1/8 × 20 7/8 inches (68.9 × 53 cm)
Edition: Edition of 300
Framed: Sold unframed
