Takashi Murakami: Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis @ Perrotin, Los Angeles

Perrotin Los Angeles is delighted to present a new solo exhibition by Takashi Murakami, Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis. Freshly inspired by a visit to Monet’s Giverny, Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) explores the relationship between ukiyo-e and Impressionism in a suite of 24 new paintings at Perrotin Los Angeles. The latest works advance his theory of how ukiyo-e, or “floating world pictures,”transformed the global art scene in the late 1800s. In recent years, Murakami has reflected on how landscape prints from Japan spurred Impressionists to adopt more subjective and abstract approaches to composition and painting. Now the artist whose early sculptures HIROPON and My Lonesome Cowboy challenged the world to consider the theme of sexuality in Japanese art ponders the global…