Murakami: Unfamiliar People

村上隆（生於1962年）是日本領先的當代藝術家之一。以其廣泛的設計而聞名，涵蓋美術、時尚、消費品、策展和娛樂。
其同時也是超扁平運動的創始人，他的藝術作品超越生活，色彩大膽、充滿活力，並具有從動漫和漫畫中汲取靈感的流行感。

除了其標誌性的快樂花朵和可愛人物之外，他在本書展現不同風格的黑暗面設計：尖牙多眼的怪物、猖獗的消費主義、人類的錯誤、生活中的危險工具和數位時代的快文化。
探討過去十年的作品，展現現代人處於前所未有的環境、政治和社會動盪時代等等種種令人不安的景象。

本書與舊金山亞洲藝術博物館聯合出版。內容包含村上隆和Laura W. Allen、Hiroko Ikegami、Masako Shiba的對談，解構怪物對藝術家的意義，並反思村上隆雕塑的新方向以及他最近的NFT專案，搭配豐富的彩色插圖、塑膠封面、染色邊緣和四個摺頁，是值得粉絲收藏之作！

This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade

One of Japan’s leading contemporary artists, Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) is known for a wide-ranging practice that encompasses not only fine art but fashion, consumer products, curation, and entertainment. Founder of the Superflat movement, Murakami makes art that is larger than life, boldly colored, and buoyant, with a Pop sensibility that draws inspiration from anime and manga.

But beyond the happy flowers and kawaii characters that have defined Murakami’s career lurk darker manifestations: the sharp-toothed, multi-eyed monsters that have increasingly become the artist’s vehicle for expressing the effects of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane. This book explores these themes in works from the last decade, presenting a disquieting vision of monsterized beings born in an era of unprecedented environmental, political, and social turmoil.

Conversations with Murakami and essays by Laura W. Allen, Hiroko Ikegami, and Masako Shiba deconstruct what monsters mean to the artist and reflect on new directions in Murakami’s sculpture and the genesis of his recent NFT projects. The book features lavish color illustrations, a plastic jacket, dyed edges, and four gatefolds.

Published in association with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco