Takashi Murakami: Dazzling Circus: Embrace Peace and Darkness within Thy Heart Richard Taylor The catalogue reproduces the exhibited

The catalogue reproduces the exhibited works together with archival material

a retrospective focused on the artist’s work as a filmmaker

which traces the close creative and sometimes complicated personal relationship between the two artists

Hodgkin painted over these shapes with vivid hues

which addresses the “flatness” of Japanese visual culture from traditional painting to contemporary animation in the context of World War II and its aftermath

Takashi Murakami: Dazzling Circus: Embrace Peace and Darkness within Thy Heart Richard Taylor The catalogue reproduces the exhibitedThis limited edition print by Takashi Murakami features contrasting motifs of bright smiling flowers and menacing representations of skulls. This imagery is drawn from a series of paintings that were first shown in Takashi Murakami: Flowers & Skulls at Gagosian, Hong Kong, in 2013. The works in the exhibition, Murakamis first in Hong Kong, explored one of the central dichotomies of his artbetween joy and terror, and between his optimistic magnanimity