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Takashi Murakami Skateboard Decks: Set of 2 works: 2015-2017:
Takashi Murakami Skulls Skateboard Deck 2015: this highly collectible limited edition Murakami skateboard was published in 2015 as part of a collaboration between Takashi Murakami
Vans. This deck is housed in its original shrink wrapping and features a fun, playful array of Murakami skulls
a bold printed signature on the reverse
The next, a collaboration between Takashi Murakami and his friend, the rising Japanese artist 'Madsaki'. The impression is an urban twist on Takashi Murakami’s otherwise highly polished flowers motif. This scarce, limited work was published by Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Gallery Japan in 2017 and is unopened in its original packaging.
Brilliant pieces that makes for vibrant, one of a kind wall-art that hang with ease.
Medium: Silkscreen on Maple Wood. Crisp colors.
Dimensions (applying to each individual work): 8.0 x 31 inches (20.5 x 79 cm).
Condition: each housed in original packaging; excellent overall condition.
Each from a sold out limited edition of unknown; printed signatures and publisher trademark on the reverse.
One of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from postwar Asia, Takashi Murakami—“the Warhol of Japan”—is known for his contemporary Pop synthesis of fine art and popular culture, particularly his use of a boldly graphic and colorful anime and manga cartoon style.
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Pop Art, Tokyo Artists, Japan, Contemporary Pop Art, Popular Culture, Contemporary Asian Art, Flowers, Flora. Takashi Murakami. Street art. Graffiti.
- Creator:Takashi Murakami (1963, Japanese)
- Creation Year:2015-2017
- Dimensions:Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)
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- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU354313828412
Takashi Murakami
Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami may be famous among collectors for the psychedelic flowers and chaotic cartoons that populate his prints and paintings, but artists likely know him as the theorist behind the contemporary art movement he calls “Superflat.”
Partially inspired by the Pop art of Andy Warhol, in which celebrity culture and mundane mass-produced items became the focus of bright and colorful works that both celebrated and criticized consumerism, Murakami’s Superflat encompasses painting, sculpture, digital design and more to present a subversive look at consumerism but is also an effort to blend fine art and lowbrow culture.
A multifaceted and remarkably influential artist as well as a compulsive art collector, Murakami has collaborated with brands such as Louis Vuitton, while one of his most famous Superflat works is the teddy bear on the cover of the Graduation album by American rapper Kanye West.
In 1993 Murakami earned his Ph.D. from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he was trained in nihonga, a style of painting that originated in the late 19th century by artists who worked to preserve and promote the conventions and processes associated with traditional Japanese art. While practicing nihonga, Murakami began to realize that his beliefs didn’t align with the tradition, so his art subsequently took on a satirical feel that embodied a critique of the movement. Before long, his style took a drastic turn, embracing otaku, a rising postwar cultural phenomenon among Japan’s younger crowd who loved anime and manga. (Otaku is also integral to Superflat.)
This is when Murakami’s most well-known character, Mr. DOB, was born. This anime-inspired icon, which Americans might interpret as a cross between Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat given its pronounced ears and broad and menacing grin, was part of the artist’s endeavor to elevate the otaku subculture but also to target mass consumerism. While Murakami conceived of Mr. DOB years ahead of his 2000-era Superflat theory, there is much common ground between the two. Not unlike his other creations, Murakami’s Mr. DOB is equal parts erotic, disturbing and cartoonish — an incisive mockery of the mingling of commerce and fine art so prevalent in Japanese popular culture.
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Takashi Murakami Flowers Skateboard Decks (set of 2 works):
The black & white deck marks a collaboration between Takashi Murakami and his friend, the rising Japanese artist 'Madsaki' (bio below). The impression is an urban twist on Takashi Murakami’s otherwise highly polished flowers motif - a beautiful juxtaposition between two very different styles from two masters of their craft. This limited work was published by Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Gallery Japan in 2017. The blue was published circa 2017 in conjunction with the Murakami exhibit: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, MCA Chicago. A brilliant set that makes for vibrant, one of a kind wall-art that hangs with ease.
Medium: Silkscreen on 2 individual Maple Wood skateboard decks. Crisp colors.
Dimensions: 8.0 x 31 inches (20.5 x 79 cm)
Condition: each housed in its original packaging; excellent overall condition.
Each from a sold out limited edition of unknown; stamped by the artist on the reverse of each.
Perhaps Murakami's most iconic motif, these candy-colored, smiling flowers came into the artist's work when he was preparing for his entrance exams for the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, and he embraced the form over nine years teaching prep-school students to draw flowers.
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