Takashi Murakami: Superflat Point B bringing the deceptive pictorial world

bringing the deceptive pictorial world of images into direct confrontation with the concretely human world of objects

this Limoges porcelain plate reproduces Basquiat’s painting The Mechanics That Always Have a Gear Left Over (1988)

alongside an introduction by Hopps

The exhibition showcased Boafo’s striking large-scale portraits of his friends

and structure

Takashi Murakami: Superflat Point B bringing the deceptive pictorial worldThis is the revised edition of the exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of Takashi Murakami: Superflat, an exhibition that premiered in Tokyo and Aichi, Japan, in 2000, before traveling in an expanded form to Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Seattle in 2001. Superflat was the first of three related exhibitions curated by Takashi Murakami exploring his theory of art. Murakami coined the titular term to discuss a lineage of Japanese visual