Takashi Murakami

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Private Collection

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges and corners particularly at the bottom two corners. Under ultra violet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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As the title suggests, Takashi Murakami's 2006 canvas, "Eye Love Superflat," is an iconic example of the artist's signature style, which is, indeed, called "Superflat" – large swaths of flat color decorated with graphic, often anime-inspired images. His poppy design motifs allow him to both embrace and critique consumerism, with which he has a very public relationship.

The present work, which is literally branded with the Louis Vuitton logo epitomizes his reappropration of Western iconography. By painting the pattern of the esteemed French luxury brand in bright colors, onto canvas, Murakami is exerting the inevitable future globalism as well as purposefully enjambing high and low art, like Warhol before him. "We want to see the newest things," he once said. "That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art." (Takashi Murakami, Superflat, Tokyo, 2000).