![]() ![]() Murakami’s painting, like Shōhaku’s, uses a restricted palette and is spread over several conjoined sections. Shōhaku’s work is a multi-panel Unryūzu (cloud-and-dragon) painting in which the titular creature appears as a Buddhist symbol of optimism and good fortune. (Kabuki stage names, which specify an actor’s style and lineage, are passed down through generations the Ichikawa family has a roughly 350-year history.) The November 2022 unveiling of Murakami’s design, which was commissioned by film director Takashi Miike, coincided with the first performance of Ichikawa Shinnosuke VIII in the November Kichirei Kaomise Grand Kabuki Theater program.Īlso on view is another extended-format painting, Dragon in Clouds – Indigo Blue (2010), which Murakami produced in response to eccentric Japanese artist Soga Shōhaku’s Dragon and Clouds (1763). Understanding the New Cognitive Domain marks the debut of a monumental new 5-by-23-meter painting by Murakami based on the iwai-maku, or stage curtain, that he produced for the Kabuki-za theater in Ginza, Tokyo, in celebration of Japanese Kabuki actor and producer Ichikawa Ebizō XI’s assumption of the name Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII, Hakuen. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery in France. The exhibition features five such works plus others in smaller formats and several sculptures. Gagosian is pleased to announce Understanding the New Cognitive Domain, an exhibition of work by Takashi Murakami at the gallery in Le Bourget, focused on his monumental paintings. On June 10, Gagosian shuttle buses will run gratis between Le Bourget Gare RER (exit 1: Place des Déportés) and Gagosian Le Bourget every twenty minutes from 2 to 6pm. ![]()
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