TAKASHI MURAKAMI x YOSHITOMO NARA Brutus Magazine 2001 Skateboard
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TAKASHI MURAKAMI (b. 1962, Japan) x Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959, Japan) ( Narakami ) , ' BRUTUS Magazine ', 2001 RARE Artist's Collaborative Skateboard / Skate Deck
This rare skateboard deck is a collaboration between contemporary Japanese artists Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara and Japanese pop-culture magazine, BRUTUS
. Executed in 2001, this work is from a limited edition of unknown size, produced in conjunction with both artists feature issue, BRUTUS
magazine, September 2001. Screenprint on maple wood skateboard deck. Printed with the artists' signatures on the reverse. Dimensions (approx.): 30-1/8" x 7-1/2" x 1-1/2" (76.5 x 19 x 3.8 cm). © TAKASHI MURAKAMI, kaikaikiki 2001. © YOSHITOMO NARA. © Magazine House Ltd. BRAND NEW / Excellent condition
in original shrink-wrap packaging ( some scuffs and dust to shrink-wrap from display
). PROVENANCE : Acquired from Giant Robot Store, Los Angeles, CA, in December 2003. Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo, where he lives and works. Collections include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Recent institutional exhibitions include Murakami Versailles , Château de Versailles, France (2010); Murakami: The 500 Arhats , Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2015); Murakami by Murakami , Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2017); The Deep End of the Universe , Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Under the Radiation Falls , Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2017); The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2017, traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, in 2018).
Murakami is the founder of Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., an art production and art management corporation, which both produces his work and functions as a supportive environment for emerging artists. One of the most popular contemporary artists in Japan, Yoshitomo Nara is best known for his sinister imagery of children and animals. His flat, two-dimensional characters display a range of negative emotions evoking anger, sadness, even revenge while remaining vulnerable to the viewer. Provocative in nature, the children typically wield objects such as knives and cigarettes, seemingly posing contrast to the rigidness of Japanese social constructs. Nara was born and raised in a rural village of northern Japan. Nature, music, and the solitude of his childhood had a profound impact on how he sees the world and the viewpoint he brings to his work. After graduating with his MFA from the Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts, Japan he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf during the late 1980s. He remained in Germany after graduation in 1993 and opened a studio in Cologne. Nara has been exhibiting his paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, and collections of merchandise featuring his characters internationally since 2000. Nara has published multiple books throughout his career including The Lonesome Puppy (2008), a children’s book, and the Yoshitomo Nara Photo Book 2003-2012 (2012), a collection of ephemera from his life and travels. His work is held in the esteemed collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Art in Osaka, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain among many others. He currently lives and works in Tokyo. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY Store ICON ABOVE
This rare skateboard deck is a collaboration between contemporary Japanese artists Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara and Japanese pop-culture magazine, BRUTUS
. Executed in 2001, this work is from a limited edition of unknown size, produced in conjunction with both artists feature issue, BRUTUS
magazine, September 2001. Screenprint on maple wood skateboard deck. Printed with the artists' signatures on the reverse. Dimensions (approx.): 30-1/8" x 7-1/2" x 1-1/2" (76.5 x 19 x 3.8 cm). © TAKASHI MURAKAMI, kaikaikiki 2001. © YOSHITOMO NARA. © Magazine House Ltd. BRAND NEW / Excellent condition
in original shrink-wrap packaging ( some scuffs and dust to shrink-wrap from display
). PROVENANCE : Acquired from Giant Robot Store, Los Angeles, CA, in December 2003. Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo, where he lives and works. Collections include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Recent institutional exhibitions include Murakami Versailles , Château de Versailles, France (2010); Murakami: The 500 Arhats , Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2015); Murakami by Murakami , Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2017); The Deep End of the Universe , Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Under the Radiation Falls , Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2017); The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2017, traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, in 2018).
Murakami is the founder of Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., an art production and art management corporation, which both produces his work and functions as a supportive environment for emerging artists. One of the most popular contemporary artists in Japan, Yoshitomo Nara is best known for his sinister imagery of children and animals. His flat, two-dimensional characters display a range of negative emotions evoking anger, sadness, even revenge while remaining vulnerable to the viewer. Provocative in nature, the children typically wield objects such as knives and cigarettes, seemingly posing contrast to the rigidness of Japanese social constructs. Nara was born and raised in a rural village of northern Japan. Nature, music, and the solitude of his childhood had a profound impact on how he sees the world and the viewpoint he brings to his work. After graduating with his MFA from the Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts, Japan he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf during the late 1980s. He remained in Germany after graduation in 1993 and opened a studio in Cologne. Nara has been exhibiting his paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, and collections of merchandise featuring his characters internationally since 2000. Nara has published multiple books throughout his career including The Lonesome Puppy (2008), a children’s book, and the Yoshitomo Nara Photo Book 2003-2012 (2012), a collection of ephemera from his life and travels. His work is held in the esteemed collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Art in Osaka, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain among many others. He currently lives and works in Tokyo. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY Store ICON ABOVE
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