TAKASHI MURAKAMI: UNFAMILIAR PEOPLE — SWELLING OF MONSTERIZED HUMAN EGO

behavior informed by historical and art-historical references and a wry sense of humor. This exhibition focuses in particular on the artist's use of monsters as a vehicle for reflecting on contemporary life. While monsters have been a consistent motif for Murakami from the beginning, these works find them taking on new forms in response to the influence of social media and a global pandemic, when the people around us — and their self-presentation in online interactions — sometimes became startlingly unfamiliar. In addition to premiering several neverbefore-seen new works, the exhibition includes an epic seventyfive-foot diptych spanning an entire wall of the Pavilion and an installation blanketing Wilbur Gallery from top to bottom with Murakami’s signature flower motif.

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