Gallery Planet is exhibiting an editioned-prints of Murakami Takashi’s works who is widely loved all over the world. Presenting the concept of hyperplane (超平面: making everything flat) or ‘superflat,’ Murakami Takashi is evaluated as raising ‘otaku culture’ to a higher level through works that mix Japanese traditional art which emphasizes planeness and fanciness and pop culture which is represented by cartoon and animation. His solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles in 2000 created a sensation, constructing his international fame.
This exhibition features his major editioned-prints and you can see the classic character Cosmos and Mr. DOB series, and some eiditioned-figures. The Cosmos series reinterprets the flower, a traditional material in Japanese painting in a modern sense; it most clearly shows the artist’s ‘superflat’ style as well and; Mr. DOB which recalls characters such as Mickey Mouse, Doraemon etc is his other self initiated from criticism on Japanese cultural luminaries in early 1990s. As a lot of appreciators keep coming and paying attention to the Murakami retrospective exhibition currently held at PLATEAU which is first in Asia, the special exhibition of editioned-prints organized in Gallery Planet would serve as a good opportunity for you to possess world-class artist’s works for affordable price.