Murakami Takashi: Murakami Zombie

26.01.2023 - 12.03.2023


Busan Museum of Art hosts TAKASHI MURAKAMI: Murakami Zombie, the fourth exhibition in the series Lee Ufan and His Friends. The large-scale retrospective exhibition of the pre-eminent Japanese artist features paintings, large sculptures, installations, and video art, as well as some of his earliest pieces never before publicly shown. In this exhibition carrying the title “Murakami Zombie,” a “zombie aesthetic” is deployed by the internationally renowned artist, whose global reputation grew from works inspired by Japanese pop culture motifs.
The “zombie,” emblematic of the collective anxiety of the contemporary world, has become increasingly prevalent in all sorts of pop culture media, from movies to webtoons to animated characters. Zombies have been interpreted as a product of the “neo liberalism” of the modern world and the associated ‘anxiety’ of its people, or the symbolic grotesque phenomena of contemporary civilization.
(Busan Museum of Art)





Curated by: Busan Museum of Art
Photo: Busan Museum of Art

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