Virgil Abloh x Takashi Murakami Glance Past the Future 2018 Silkscreen, Edition of 300, Offered as Signed
Virgil Abloh x Takashi Murakami Glance Past the Future 2018 Silkscreen, Edition of 300, Offered as Signed
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Two Languages on One Screen
Abloh brought the graphic shorthand of street culture; Murakami brought the studio rigour of Superflat. Here they meet in a face half lost in magenta, more torn poster than pop icon.
Best for: Collectors of the Abloh and Murakami partnership, and of fashion's crossover with contemporary art
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Described as new and unused, kept as a loose sheet and never framed. Not yet examined in hand.
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Glance Past the Future, a 2018 silkscreen made by Virgil Abloh with Takashi Murakami, from an edition of 300 and offered as signed. An image of 37.3 x 31.8 cm on a sheet of 46.8 x 39.8 cm.
The Piece
Abloh and Murakami worked together across 2018, a meeting of streetwear design and Superflat painting. This print is the quieter, darker side of that exchange. A photographic face looks out through sweeps of hot magenta, black and white, laid down in broad, dragged passes of ink so the image seems half erased. Round, concentric forms surface in the shadows around the eye.
The effect is closer to a torn poster on a city wall than to Murakami's smiling flowers, and that is the point: two visual languages pressed into one screen. Silkscreen gives the magenta its flat, saturated punch. The page describes the sheet as bought from Kaikai Kiki, stored unframed and sent in its original packing.
Details
- Artists: Virgil Abloh and Takashi Murakami
- Title: Glance Past the Future
- Year: 2018
- Medium: Silkscreen on paper
- Edition: 300 (as stated)
- Signature: Offered as signed
- Image size: 37.3 x 31.8 cm (14.7 x 12.5 in)
- Sheet size: 46.8 x 39.8 cm (18.4 x 15.7 in)
- Framing: Unframed loose sheet
- Publisher: Kaikai Kiki, as described
- Condition: Described as new and unused
Condition
- Described as new and unused, kept as a loose sheet and never framed.
- The Desk has not handled the sheet; the photograph is a catalogue image of the work.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Offered as signed and from an edition of 300, as the page states; that claim is presented as given, not asserted by the Desk. Frame with acid-free mounts and UV-filtering glazing, and keep the sheet away from direct sunlight, which fades magenta inks quickly.
Delivery from Japan
The sheet is shipped flat, never rolled, in its original rigid packing, insured and tracked. Duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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