📍 Kyoto Museum of Art 90th Anniversary exhibition "Takashi Murakami もののけ Kyoto"
🏠 Kyoto Museum of Art, 2nd floor
🕰️2024.2.3-9.1 (10-18:00, closed on Mondays)

🎫2200 yen

Giant posters of Takashi Murakami's exhibition can be seen in many bookstores and street window displays. From the long queues on the first day of the exhibition to now, Kyoto people really love Takashi Murakami.

Even if you choose to go to the exhibition on a weekend in March, you don't have to wait in line. After entering the museum silky tickets, 2200 yen/person. Admission is free for college students, elementary and high school students in Kyoto. (Envy students) Now, in addition to the "Ghibli" exhibition (can't get tickets at all), the most people go to the "Murakami Takashi" exhibition, you can see the various styles of Murakami Takashi paintings

I bought a small sunflower pendant more than ten years ago, and after visiting the purchase area of this exhibition, you can also buy different colors and sunflower pendants. Takashi Murakami is not much to be liked, but the entire exhibition can still see the creativity of a contemporary trend artist, from the Edo period of traditional ukiyo-e melting to the second Yuan culture, can still see Murakami's active pursuit of change, and constantly expand the spirit of new.

I always feel that Murakami Takashi represents the trend of Japanese art and culture, and at the same time, the style, painting style and color of his works are not so Japanese (Japanese low saturation soft and simple). Especially in the traditional city of Kyoto, and to this ancient capital of the spring ignited a little different vitality. You can see a lot of Japanese couples with children to visit, take pictures of children, so Murakami in the heart of Kyoto people's influence is still very great.

Photography is not allowed in the area around the exhibition. The areas of the exhibition that can be photographed are clearly written, and the entire exhibition cannot be videotaped.

Whether you plan to come to Kyoto or not, let me show you the exhibition first!

A total of 6 exhibition areas, 6 different work styles and types, you can see a variety of Murakami's works. Many works are huge, like "huge" really will feel a different visual impact. On display are more than 100 works of different styles from the Edo Ukiyo-e period to the secondary electronic Age, including some large paintings, large sculptures and some manuscripts. The whole exhibition is amazing and worth a visit, and the impression of Takashi Murakami is not only lv's sunflower flowers.

I like the early "Luozhong Luowai Map", which depicts the beautiful scenery of Kyoto during the Edo period, and there are many monsters related to the legend of Kyoto's alien world hidden in it, but the image is very cute and the color is very bright, forming a strange and interesting picture. In addition, there are many sunflowers of different sizes hidden in the painting, you can find out how many when you have time.

He painted the image of the wind god Thor is also very lovely, and later went to see the wind god Thor screen of Jianren Temple, and the sculptures of 33 halls, and they all smiled.

In the courtyard at the exit of the exhibition hall, a huge lv suitcase stands in the water, and a large and small golden sunflower sculpture stands on it. I was not interested in this image before, but now I think it conveys a feeling of vitality and sunshine. This exhibition is around Kyoto, the design is quite special, but my wallet only allows me to take postcards and so on. Admission to the Kyoto Museum is free, but Takashi Murakami has to pass separately at the entrance. Then go up to the second floor and see it. There is a giant sculpture in front of the glass of the other hall, remember to take a photo with it, if the weather is good, it is golden. It is close to the murin-an Japanese courtyard, you can go together!

To be honest, after seeing this exhibition, I have a new understanding of Takashi Murakami. His things are based on the Japanese cultural background, which is much more solid than it seems. Objectively speaking, his works may be the biggest cultural export of Japan to the West since Ukiyo-e.

Great success also makes the Japanese art world have to face up to his achievements in the field of art, this is not, in 2024, Murakami finally out of Tokyo, held a large solo exhibition in Kyoto (the first time outside Tokyo), in fact, as early as 2010, Murakami Takashi can hold a solo exhibition in Versailles Palace in Paris. This makes him one of the few Japanese who must be described in the history of contemporary art.