TAKASHI MURAKAMI at Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street from 27th June 2011
26 June 2011 • Mark Westall
Murakami’s latest group of paintings explores his complex ambivalence to the legacy of cosmopolitan painter Kuroda Seiki, who brought y?ga or Western-style painting to Meiji- period Japan. Kuroda broadly promoted the genre of history painting, as well as the validity of the nude figure as a subject for art.