Park Yuna ANN/THE KOREA HERALD – Japanese leading contemporary artist Takashi Murakami showed up in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan for his first exhibition in the country in 10 years. Inspired by Japan’s otaku subculture, his art may look bright and kawaii, cute in Japanese, at first glance. However, its content is more […]
BUSAN - What completed Japanese art star Takashi Murakami s already colorful look of the day on Jan. 26 as he appeared in the southern port city of Busan was his comically large headdress. A pink plush toy in the shape of Kurage-bo - a creepily endearing jellyfish boy designed by the artist for his directorial debut “Jellyfish Eyes” - resting atop his graying head already offered a hint of what was about to unfold inside his largest retrospective to date in Korea.
BUSAN - What completed Japanese art star Takashi Murakami s already colorful look of the day on Jan. 26 as he appeared in the southern port city of Busan was his comically large headdress. A pink plush toy in the shape of Kurage-bo - a creepily endearing jellyfish boy designed by the artist for his directorial debut “Jellyfish Eyes” - resting atop his graying head already offered a hint of what was about to unfold inside his largest retrospective to date in Korea.