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Jim Speers moves into the McCahon House today for a 3-month residency and his exhibition Numerology and Territories runs at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau to 5 December 2010.
Alicia Frankovich has taken up a 12-month, CNZ-funded residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien's new premises located between Fraenkelufer and Kottbusser Tor. The refurbished building provides more space for events, more artists' studios (25) and better workshops.
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Saffronart, Mumbai's fastest-growing online auction house
The VIP online art fair will take place in January (see our VIP blog here), but in the world of art auctions a start-up from India recognised the the web potential a decade ago. Founded in 2000 by Dinesh and Minal Vazirani, Saffronart claims to be the world's largest fine art online auction house. Based in Mumbai, with offices in New York and London, the company has elbowed its way into the Indian art auction scene, alongside established veterans like Christies and Sothebys.
From a modest start of $126,000 in online art sales in 2000, Saffronart is projecting around $30 million in art auction sales this year. The Vaziranis say the market for Indian art is growing exponentially, shooting up from $3 million in 2000 to an estimated $120 million this year, and that many artworks have crossed the million dollar mark, driven in part by the number of wealthy Indians worldwide. (Overseas bidders account for about half of the company's sales.) They had what they describe as their “wow” moment in June 2008 when an Italian collector they hadn't heard of purchased online an untitled 2006 oil painting by Subodh Gupta for $1.42 million.
The Vaziranis say they embraced the internet to reach the biggest number of potential buyers around the world. They publish the prices of artworks on Saffronart's website, an idea considered practically heretical in India ten years ago. “It allowed for a transparency that hadn't existed in the Indian market,” says Minal Vazirani.
Saffronart has come under fire from some quarters for partnering with galleries. They collaborate with prominent galleries, sponsoring exhibitions of emerging artists whose works are available for purchase on the Saffronart website. They are not worried by these concerns saying the company merely acts as a marketing platform and that prices remain the same with the gallery and Saffronart splitting the commission.
Image: Minal Vazirani, CEO of Saffronart, Mumbai
Lorenzo Ruldolf on Singapore as the new Asian outpost of the international art market
Lorenzo Rudolf, the art fair impresario who changed the way art is consumed with Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, will present the first edition of Art Stage Singapore from 12 – 16 January 2011. He is also working with the Singapore Art Museum on an exhibition of works by artists such as Subodh Gupta and Ai Weiwei, drawn from a cache of notable collections in the region, that will be a special feature of the new art fair.
In a recent interview with Mayo Martin he ranges across the state of the international art market, art fair developments in the Asia/Pacific region and why Hong Kong and Singapore will lead the way, art fair “bling-bling”, and the relationship between the holy trinity of the art market – the auction houses, biennales and art fairs.
Image: Lorenzo Rudolf, director of Art Stage Singapore
Jae Hoon Lee's NOMAD exhibition at 4A, Sydney
Jae Hoon Lee's exhibition of large-scale photographs and videos of landscapes is showing at 4A Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney to 11 December 2010. As Lee travelled through India, Nepal and Korea he collected images that were subsequently digitally stitched together to create new, fantastic landscapes, setting up an interplay of real and virtual experiences.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, In Su Bong (rock climbers), 2010, digitally collaged photograph, 1400 x 1590mm
Martin Basher shows on K Road and in NYC
Martin Basher continues his ongoing explorations into states of beauty, desire, spiritual longing and consumerism with a single body of work exhibited concurrently in Auckland and New York. STATES OF PEACE AND CALM W. PERSONAL TOUCH + EASY ORDERING runs at Starkwhite to 27 November 2010 and his new public sculpture commissioned by the Public Art Fund NYC is on view for ten months in TOTAL RECALL, a five person show at the MetroTech Plaza, downtown Brooklyn.
Image: Martin Basher, Minimal Consumption/Reflective Sublime/Aspirational Sunset Art (2010) in the Starkwhite exhibition STATES OF PEACE AND CALM W. PERSONAL TOUCH + EASY ORDERING
dOCUMENTA (13) announces curatorial team and process
The curatorial team and process for dOCUMENTA (13) has been announced. The exhibition will be held in various locations and will include new works by more than 100 artists from around the world. In some cases these will be presented as parts of projects with other artists, agents, or persons active in cultural fields including science and literature. A number of historical artworks will also be exhibited in these interrelated ideas, conversations and parallel stories.
Artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is planning the event with a number of agents, advisors and artists who contribute in various ways, with different levels of engagement, aimed at creating a generative process that is organic and affective, open to change. She says: “In an art world dominated by the curatorial, to act without a pre-defined curatorial plan offers a possibility to both repeat the network of connectivity of the digital age, while also reflecting on its shortcomings and implications from a critical viewpoint.”
This link takes you to the dOCUMENTA (13) announcement.
Image: dOCUMENTA (13) press conference held in Berlin
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureates Announced
Ceramicist and set designer John Parker is one of the five Laureates announced last night in Dunedin by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Each year the Arts Foundation makes five $50,000 awards across art forms.
The lineup of Laureates from previous years includes: Shane Cotton, Neil Dawson, Phil Dadson, Warwick Freeman, Julia Morison, Ann Noble, Michael Parekowhai, Peter Peryer, John Reynolds, Joe Sheehan and Ronnie van Hout.
Image: Cover of the publication produced by the City Gallery Wellington for the exhibition John Parker: Ceramics, 2002
A sign of the times?
Arts Council England has said it will cut most recipients grants by 15% by 2015 and shrink its own staff to meet government belt-tightening requirements. The Council's operating costs, of which staff account for 56%, will be halved to 12 million pounds in real terms by 2015. Chief Executive Colin Davey says “it will quite a different Arts Council with fewer people doing things in a different way”.
The cuts take in Arts & Business, the 34-year-old nonprofit group that helps cultural organisations get funding from companies, trusts and foundations, and wealthy individuals. Arts & Business will see its 3.8 million pound grant halved in 2011-12, then cut off completely. The move has taken CEO Colin Tweedy by surprise who says, “it's not what you would normally do if you want to encourage the private sector to do more.”
New Zealand's Minister of Arts, Culture & Heritage, Chris Finlayson would agree. He has set up a taskforce to investigate ways to improve philanthropic giving. “The Cultural Philanthropy Taskforce is interested in finding out how to increase charitable giving by private individuals over and above – not instead of – Government funding”, he says. Mind you, the Minister's commitment to maintaining arts funding could be put to the test as the economy continues to stutter along and the Government faces the possibility of an election year recession on its watch.
The Cultural Philanthropy Taskforce is headed up by Peter Biggs (former chair of Creative New Zealand) and the other members are Margaret Belich, Carolyn Henwood, James S Hill, Dame Jenny Gibbs and Dayle Mace.
Installation views of The Story Of A Window
This link takes you to installation views of The Story Of A Window at Neon Parc, Melbourne. Staged in association with Starkwhite and Altman Siegel (San Francisco), the exhibition by Matt Keegan & Dane Mitchell runs to 20 November 2010.
Image: Matt Keegan & Dane Mitchell, The Story Of A Window, installation view, Neon Parc, Melbourne, 2010. Photograph courtesy of the artists and Neon Parc.
Last few days of BEYOND
Our current exhibition BEYOND closes on Wednesday at 6.00pm.
Image: installation view of Tamar Guimaraes' A Man Called Love (2007) in the exhibition BEYOND, Starkwhite, Auckland, 2010
Unnerved: The New Zealand Project at the NGV
Curated by Maud Page, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project closed recently at GoMA, Brisbane and will open at the National Gallery of Victoria on 25 November 2010.
Unnerved includes Gavin Hipkins' The Homely, which has been described as a post-colonial gothic novel. Through a cinematic run of 80 images, which are often slightly blurry and filled with the colours of a dreamscape, Hipkins re-presents monuments and memorials of Australia and New Zealand nationalism with fragmented glimpses of domestic interiors and museum dioramas. He also says: “Although New Zealand has an international reputation for being clean, green and beautiful (a mythology that New Zealanders often call on to represent ourselves) it is the treatment and conquest of nature as an adventure playground that interests me with this project”.
Images: Gavin Hipkins' The Homely (1997-2000), installation view at Brisbane's GoMA in the exhibition Unnerved: The New Zealand Project. Photograph by Natasha Harth
Coming up at Starkwhite
BEYOND closes on Wednesday 3 November and will be followed by a Martin Basher exhibition of works made during his recent residency at the Colin McCahon House in Titirangi. We'll post more details on the show and the opening date next week.
Image: a recent work photographed in Martin Basher's McCahon House studio
Jae Hoon Lee stages an interplay of real and virtual experiences at 4A
Jae Hoon Lee's exhibition NOMAD opens tonight at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. The exhibition, which follows his recent Ground Zero show at Starkwhite, has been developed with 4A director and curator Aaron Seeto.
Located on two floors of an historic building in Sydney's Chinatown, 4A began as an initiative of the Asian Artists' Association Inc and evolved into a public artspace dedicated to presenting contemporary Asian art in Australia. Under Seeto's directorship, 4A has become a high-profile hub for cross-cultural discussion and debate.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, One of these days, 2008, digitally manipulated photograph, 900 x 900mm
Review of BEYOND, artists who engage the paranormal in their practices
This link takes you to a review of our current exhibition BEYOND, featuring works by Tamar Guimaraes (BR), Dane Mitchell (NZ) and Georgina Starr (UK).
Image: Georgina Starr, I am the Medium (2010), sound installation, locked groove vinyl record, turntable, amp and parabolic speaker.
John Reynolds' Tiwatawata: a procession of charred poles across the landscape
Taking its cue from nineteenth century illustrations of local Maori demarcation poles and photos of the eventual fencing of boundaries with the arrival of more recent communities at site of the new Hobsonville Point Park, John Reynolds' recently installed work Tiwatawata dramatises the process of marking off the land.
Consisting of 188 charred and stained wooden poles of various diameters closely staged at irregular distances apart and at differing heights, Reynolds says “Tiwatawata is an artwork IN the landscape rather than ON the landscape, and crucially, a localised drama of edges and site.”
Images: John Reynolds, Tiwatawata (2010), 188 charred and stained poles, installation views, Hobsonville Point Park, Auckland, NZ
Images: John Reynolds, Tiwatawata (2010), 188 charred and stained poles, installation views, Hobsonville Point Park, Auckland, NZ
BEYOND continues at Starkwhite
Our current exhibition BEYOND runs to Wednesday 3 November 2010.
Image: Dane Mitchell, Apport, 2008 (cinematography by Duncan Cole), 16mm film loop
Shanghai Biennale opens
The 8th Shanghai Biennale, which opens to the public today, defines itself as a 'rehearsal' and as a reflective space of performance. The curators say the Biennale “aims to invite a wide range of participants – artists, curators, critics, collectors, museum directors and members of the audience – to rehearse in the Biennale a fertile theatre to reflect on the relations between art experimentation and the art system, between individual creativity and the public domain.” This link takes you to a full outline of the curatorial thinking of the Biennale, which runs to 23 January 2011.
Image: The 8th Shanghai Biennial Curatorial Committee (from left) Li Lei, Fan Dian, Hua Yi and Gao Shiming
Colin Chinnery moves on from ShContemporary
Colin Chinnery has moved on from ShContemporary to devote more time to his own work, but will remain involved with the fair working as an advisor. Chinnery introduced a fresh vision to Shanghai's international art fair enabling it to become a producer of ideas as well an Asian outpost of the art market. His recent fair included Discoveries: Re-Value a thematic exhibition highlighting the confrontation between different ideas of artistic and commercial value and a conference co-organised with Hou Hanru on the theme Collecting Asian Art: What, When and How?
Chinnery will be replaced by Massimo Torrigiani, co-founder and director of Boiler Corporation, a publishing company and creative agency focused on contemporary visual art and culture, which also produces the Milan and New York-based Fantom – Photographic Quarterly.
Image: Colin Chinnery
Martin Basher sculpture commissioned by the Public Art Fund, NYC
Earlier this year Martin Basher was selected to produce a new public sculpture for the Public Art Fund, New York's premiere public arts organisation. The sculpture will be on view for ten months, beginning 3 November 2010, as part of TOTAL RECALL, a five-person show at MetroTech Plaza in downtown Brooklyn. He is the first New Zealander to be invited to work with the Public Art Fund.
This link takes you to a report on TOTAL RECALL published in the New York Times (see Futuristic Public Art).
The Public Art Fund is New York's leading presenter of artists' projects, new commissions and exhibitions in public spaces. For over 30 years it has been committed to working with emerging and established artists to produce innovative exhibitions of contemporary art throughout New York City. By bringing in artworks outside the traditional context of museums and galleries, the Public Art Fund provides a platform for public encounters with the art of our time. Key works commissioned by the Fund include those by Jeff Koons, Rachel Whiteread, Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor.
Images from Martin Basher's Public Art Fund proposal
Layla Rudneva-Mackay at Artspace
Layla Rudneva-Mackay's photograph Taking a moment to lose himself, when found most unexpectedly squashed between a mattress and its base, features in the exhibition A Rock That Thought It Was A Bird at Artspace. Curator Emma Bugden says: “The work is from a series in which the subjects are literally masked by their interaction with simple domestic elements – a curtain, a bed, a sheet. A tableaux is performed, one in which the protagonist is somehow consumed and integrated into the environment.”
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Taking a moment to lose himself, when found most unexpectedly squashed between a mattress and its base, 2006-2007, C-type print, installation view, Artspace, Auckland, NZ.
ART HK on the rise
“Lots of people have their eye on Hong Kong – it is the best performing market and China's bonded warehouse”, Iwan Wirth told the The Art Newspaper earlier this year. ART HK director Magnus Renfrew is rapidly establishing himself as one of the gatekeepers of this haven for tax-free art sales and this year takes 92nd place on The Power 100, ArtReview's guide to the general trends, networks and forces that shape the art world.
We presented John Reynolds' A Table of Dynasties at ART HK 2009 and a group show at ART HK 2010 and we'll be announcing our lineup for the 2011 edition of the fair in the New Year.
Image: Magnus Renfrew, director of ART HK
Jim Speers: Te Tuhi to Titirangi
Jim Speers moves into the McCahon House today for a 3-month residency and his exhibition Numerology and Territories runs at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau to 5 December 2010.
Images: Jim Speers, Hanger #1 (2010), brass, 800 x 300mm; VeilSide (2010), steel, 60 x 200 x 90mm; Numerology House (2010) steel, 80 x 100 x 200mm
Glen Hayward awarded a McCahon House Residency
Glen Hayward has been awarded a place in the 2011 McCahon House Residency Programme. He will move into the McCahon house and studio in July after completing a three-month residency at Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland courtesy of a Kaipara Foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award.
Images: McCahon House, Titirangi, designed by Pete Bossley; Glen Hayward, Closed Circuit, 2010, acrylic on carved wood
Superflux at Starkwhite
Vitamin-S presents Superflux at Starkwhite on Sunday 17 October at 7.00pm (admission is $10).
Superflux is a quartet of artists from Grenoble, France, who for the last fifteen years have been engaged in exploring the relationship between performance and the screen image. The members of the collective employ digital technology with treated analogue sound and film, and present this through equally customised equipment. Through sound and film, Superflux efface boundaries between performance art and documentation, questioning the idea that aural and visual art media function only as frames – either subservient to performance or invisibly conditioning performance.
A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird opens tonight at Artspace
Layla Rudneva-Mackay is one of the four artists presenting stand-alone projects in the exhibition A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, which opens tonight at Auckland's Artspace.
Image: Poster still from Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture, Koki Tanaka, DVD, 2008, courtesy of the artist and Aoyama Meguro Gallery, Tokyo
Apple and Hockney chatting about the 60s
Image: Billy Apple chats to David Hockney at The Mayor Gallery, London which is currently showing Billy Apple – British and American Works 1960-69.
Image: Billy Apple with David Hockney at The Mayor Gallery. Photo courtesy of Murray Crane.
Image: Billy Apple with David Hockney at The Mayor Gallery. Photo courtesy of Murray Crane.
Leigh Davis Flag Poem at JAR
Image: Leigh Davis, A Suspension Bridge, flag poem, presented in the JAR exhibition Time, Text & Echoes (2010-2011) New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland, NZ
Alicia Frankovich in residence at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien's new premises
Alicia Frankovich has taken up a 12-month, CNZ-funded residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien's new premises located between Fraenkelufer and Kottbusser Tor. The refurbished building provides more space for events, more artists' studios (25) and better workshops.
Previous recipients of the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien residency award are: Peter Robinson (2000), Michael Stevenson (2002), Ronnie van Hout (2004), Mladen Bzumic (2006) and Sara Hughes (2008).
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Piston (2010), found objects, hook, ball from Milan, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Christoph Tannert and Peter Funken at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien's new premises
Wystan Curnow in Tuscany to work on a new book on Colin McCahon
Wystan Curnow will spend the next six weeks in Tuscany under the Seresin Landfall Residency, awarded to enable him to work on a new book on Colin McCahon. This follows two significant publication projects in 2009. He co-edited with Tyler Cann a new book on Len Lye published by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and the Len Lye Foundation, and collaborated with Lawrence Weiner on his book The Other Side of a Cul-de-Sac.
Joint artistic directors for the 2012 Biennale of Sydney
The Biennale of Sydney has announced the appointment of of Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster as joint artistic directors of the next event in 2012. It is the first time a curatorial duo has been appointed to direct the exhibition and programme, but not the first time the two have worked together. Recently they collaborated at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where they participated in the re-installation of the Gallery's collection, and they worked together on the exhibition Draw and Tell: Lines of Transformation at the Drawing Centre in New York.
Gerald McMaster has been the Frederik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario since 2005 and Catherine de Zegher is currently Guest Curator at, Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Visiting Curator, Tapies Foundation Barcelona.
Catherine de Zegher believes Australia is on the verge of taking a central stage in outlining a new world view for the future. She says: “With large shifts happening on a global scale, from East to West and North to South, I think Sydney and its Biennale are best positioned to epitomise the transition of divisive modernist structures and systems into fluent dynamics of a 21st-century thinking that is connective and independent, and to showcase an art that shapes and corresponds to these recent processes of changing awareness.”
Critics' Picks: Billy Apple
This link takes you to Anthony Byrt's review of Billy Apple – British and American Works 1960-69 published at Art forum's Critics' Picks.
Image: Billy Apple at The Mayor Gallery London in the exhibition Billy Apple – British and American Works 1960-69
Anthony Haden-Guest in conversation with Billy Apple
Anthony Haden-Guest, editor of Charles Saatchi's online magazine, talks to Billy Apple about his current exhibition at The Mayor Gallery, New York in the 60s and other things.
BEYOND opens tonight at Starkwhite
At 5.30pm tonight we open Beyond, an exhibition of works by three artists who engage the paranormal in their practices – Tamar Guimaraes' A Man Called Love, works from Dane Mitchell's Conjuring Form project and Georgina Starr's I Am The Medium.
If you would like more information on the exhibition, please contact us at starkwhite@starkwhite.co.nz
Image: Georgina Starr, I am the Medium (2010), sound installation, locked groove vinyl record, turntable, amp and parabolic speaker. Photograph courtesy of the artist
Peter Stichbury at Tracy Williams Ltd, NY
Peter Stichbury's first solo exhibition at Tracy Williams Ltd New York runs to 30 October 2010. This link directs you to The New Yorker's take on The Proteus Effect.
Images: Peter Stichbury, The Proteus Effect, installation views, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York. Photos courtesy of Tracy Williams
The 2010 Walters Prize
On Friday night Vicente Todoli (former director of the Tate Modern) will announce the winner of this year's Walters Prize.
In a comparatively short time the Walters Prize has become one of the country's most prized art awards. Founding benefactors Erika and Robin Congreve and Dame Jenny Gibbs established the Walters Prize with the Auckland Art Gallery in 2002, positioning themselves as patrons with ideas about how to support artists, not just art gallery benefactors with deep pockets. They were joined in 2006 by art patron Dayle Mace whose contributions ensure that each of the shortlisted contenders receives a finalists prize.
Named after one of New Zealand's greatest artists (Gordon Walters), the Prize is awarded every two years to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary visual art in New Zealand. A jury of New Zealand curators and critics select four finalists who present their work in an exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery. On the basis of this presentation an international judge selects the winning artist. The previous judges have been Harald Szeeman (2002), Robert Storr (2004), Carloyn Christov-Bakargiev (2006) and Catherine David (2008). And the Prize has gone to Yvonne Todd, et al., Francis Uprichard and Peter Robinson.
In addition to the $50,000 prize the winner receives an all-expenses-paid trip to New York to exhibit their work in the exhibition space at Saatchi & Saatchi's world headquarters, and thanks to Dayle Mace each of the finalists receives $5,000.
Image: Marti Friedlander's photograph of Gordon Walters
Artist to curate the next Berlin Biennale
Artur Zmijewski has been appointed curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which will take place in early 2012.
The artist is particularly interested in the power of art and its relation to politics and is well-known for orchestrating social experiments – as in two pivotal works Them (2005) and Repetition (2007) – and for his controversial video art, which involves the participation of people in extreme situations and that often represents historical traumas and catastrophes. From an almost anthropological viewpoint he investigates social norms, morality and representations of power in today's society and the effects that art have on it.
Zmijewski is not the first artist to take the job. Maurizio Cattelan was at the helm of the fourth Biennale, assisted by curators Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Image: Artur Zmijewski, curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Murakami v. conservatives at Versailles
The Art Newspaper reports the director of the Palace of Versailles denies he has caved in to the demands of traditionalist protest groups opposed to his contemporary art programme by agreeing to no longer use the chateau's royal apartments as an exhibition space. Jean-Jacques Aillagon has decided, instead, to mount future shows in other areas of the the 17th century site, following the furore over the current exhibition of works on show there by Takashi Murakami.
Over 12,000 people have signed two anti-Murakami petitions initiated by conservative factions opposed to the “Disneyfication” of the former residence of Louis XIV, a trend they say was kickstarted by the Jeff Koons show launched there in 2008.
And Murakami? He says in an official press statement: “I am the Cheshire Cat who greets Alice in Wonderland with his devilish grin, and chatters on as she wanders around the chateau.”
Image: Takashi Murakami at Versailles, installation view
Time/Bank: bypassing money as a measure of value
e-flux has launched Time/Bank, a platform initiated by Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle where groups and individuals can pool and trade time and skills, bypassing money as a measure of value. Time/Bank is based on the premise that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute and that is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources.
Image: Time currency design by Lawrence Weiner
Coming up at Starkwhite
On Friday 8 October we open Beyond, an exhibition of works by three artists who engage the paranormal in their practices – Tamar Guimaraes' A Man Called Love, works from Dane Mitchell's Conjuring Form project and Georgina Starr's I Am The Medium.
Image: From Tamar Guimaraes' poetic slide show A Man Called Love (2007)
A collision of cultures at Versailles
Takashi Murakami is facing as much resistance for his Manga-inspired exhibition at Versailles as Jeff Koons did two years ago. Agence France-Presse reports a number of petitions are circulating against Murakami's exhibition at the former royal residence of the “Sun King” Louis XIV. According to the President of the public castle, Jean Jacques Aillagon, the protesters come from “extreme right fundamentalist groups and very conservative groups” who want make Versailles into a “reliquary of nostalgia for France of the Ancien Regime, or a France withdrawn into itself and hostile to modernism”.
Murakami says the exhibition is “a face-off between the Baroque period and postwar Japan” and that he hopes it will “create in visitors a sort of shock, an aesthetic feeling”.
Images: Takashi Murakami at the Chateau de Versailles, France