Takashi Murakami This World and the World Beyond Signed Poster, 2013, Edition of 300, Foil
Takashi Murakami This World and the World Beyond Signed Poster, 2013, Edition of 300, Foil
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Takashi Murakami's This World and the World Beyond, a 2013 offset with cold-stamp foil, signed and numbered from an edition of 300.
The Piece
Takashi Murakami, born in Tokyo in 1962, built the Superflat movement on the collision of Japanese painting traditions and anime culture, and his round-eared Mr. DOB has been its mascot since the early 1990s. In the years after the 2011 earthquake his work turned toward Buddhist ideas of life, death and rebirth, and the title of this print speaks to that turn.
Here DOB multiplies into a constellation of floating heads, some grinning with rows of teeth, some wide-eyed, rendered in candy pinks, purples, yellows and black, with a red tongue of a creature winding through the centre. The heads hang on a pale chequered ground like planets, and the cold-stamp foil lifts parts of the image with a metallic sheen that changes as you move.
The sheet measures 68 x 68 cm (26.8 x 26.8 in) and belongs to the signed and numbered edition of 300, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., the studio Murakami founded in 2001. Cold-stamp foil is laid as a metallic film rather than mixed as an ink, so the sheen shifts as the light moves across the heads. The photographs are reference images of the print.
Details
- Artist: Takashi Murakami (born Tokyo, 1962)
- Publisher: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
- Title: This World and the World Beyond
- Year: 2013
- Medium: Four-colour offset with cold-stamp foil
- Edition: 300, signed and numbered
- Measurements: 68 x 68 cm (26.8 x 26.8 in)
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Every piece carries the Japonista authenticity guarantee. Store flat, away from damp and sunlight; frame behind UV-filtering glazing.
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