MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY.(Takashi Murakami's "Mushroom" exhibition)(Brief Article)

TAKASHI MURAKAMI

On the wall flanking the entrance to Takashi Murakami's "Mushroom" exhibition was posted a long list of names and titles, like credits of a feature film. This team (mostly young artists who work as acolyte-assistants at Murakami's Hiropon Factory studio in the suburbs of Tokyo) spent months bringing the show's fourteen large-scale paintings through production, from sketch to computer animation to painstakingly old-fashioned brushwork. Gleaming and seamless, the final canvases betray no truce of individual hands. Murakami's trademark motifs--garlands of ...

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