Poster design by Kyla Arsadjaja, Graphic Design MFA '20.
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SEASON FINALE HAPPENING TONIGHT
Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series
presents
Takashi Murakami
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Takashi Murakami seamlessly blends commercial imagery, anime, manga, and traditional Japanese styles and subjects, revealing the themes and questions that connect past and present, East and West, technology and fantasy. His paintings, sculptures, and films are populated by repeated motifs and evolving characters of his own creation. Together with dystopian themes and contemporary references, he revitalizes narratives of transcendence in continuation of the nonconformist legacy of a group of eighteenth-century Japanese artists known as the Edo eccentrics.
Since the early 1990s Murakami has invented characters that combine aspects of popular cartoons from Japan, Europe, and the US—from his first Mr. DOB, who sometimes serves as a stand-in for the artist himself, to various anime characters and smiling flowers, bears, and lions. These figures act as icons and symbols—hosts for more complex themes of violence, technology, and fantasy.
Murakami earned a BA, MFA, and PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he studied nihonga (traditional Japanese painting). In 1996 he established the Hiropon Factory, a studio/workshop that in subsequent years grew into an art production and artist management company, now known as Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd.
The School of Art community is invited to attend these online 30-minute events in which Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, asks each guest a list of simple questions about artistic practice, and the anticipation of an end to the pandemic crisis.
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Previous guests in the Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series include Kara Walker, Errol Morris Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Spike Jonze, Jim Jarmusch, Catherine Opie, Sally Mann, Tilda Swinton, Brit Marling, Stephen Shore, Kelly Reichardt, William Eggleston, Hilton Als, Jonathan Lethem, Ben Stiller, Ari Aster, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cate Blanchett, Kim Gordon, Stan Douglas, Noah Baumbach, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Eggers, Robert Adams, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Murphy, Natasha Lyonne, Nan Goldin, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, A$AP Rocky, Barry Jenkins, James Laxton, Julianne Moore, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Wall, Jeremy O. Harris, and Ed Ruscha.
All conversations are open to the public and take place virtually using Zoom. Attendance is limited to 1,000 participants, so should any event approach that limit, access will be available on a “first come first served” basis. All participants will be placed in a waiting room until the event begins and will be muted upon admittance to the virtual space.
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