Takashi Murakami

Bio

Takashi Murakami is a contemporary Japanese artist. Similar to how Andy Warhol had his Factory, Murakami operates from his studio and company, Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd which has locations in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. He makes large-scale paintings and sculptures, showing the work in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions all over the world in venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, amongst others. Here, he talks about his relationship to art history, image-making and what may, or may not define madness on the occasion of his new three-floor exhibition titled, ”HEADS↔HEADS” at Galerie Perrotin in New York. The exhibition presents a new series of paintings inspired by the work of Francis Bacon.