July 6, 2011 |
Takashi Murakami’s famous ‘toons have graced everything from Louis Vuitton bags to the Google homepage, not to mention countless galleries and have become as well recognised as the mass-produced Anime from which he takes his inspiration. This latest exhibition draws less from the crowd-pleasingly cute side of Japanese pop culture and more from its mirror twin of sexuality, from sexual imagery in traditional Japanese paintings to mega-sized Manga girls. As a Japanophile and a Murakami fan, I’m looking forward to paying the exhibition a visit, though as I’m sure the good people of the Gagosian would disapprove of me posing for a photo with the above sculpture as if at some kind of raunchy theme park attraction, I’ll probably stick to looking serious, nodding and going “hmmmm…" Takashi Murakami is on at the Gagosian Britannia St until 5 August.
by Zoe Wulfsohn-Dunkley
