Takashi Murakami: Ego

The comprehensive coffee table book "Takashi Murakami: Ego" presents the work of one of today's best-known living artists. The art book features some of the artist's most celebrated series, including "Kaikai Kiki Lots" or "Faces" and "Pom and Me. In addition to an interview by curator Massimiliano Gioni, Murakami writes about his work and life.

Takashi Murakami is acclaimed worldwide for his deft blending of high and low art. In this volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of his work and is the first in the Middle East, the reader is immersed in the unique way Murakami channels the ecstasy and anxiety of contemporary culture. Conceived by the artist as a self-portrait in the guise of a cartoon, Murakami - Ego illuminates the artist's role as a cipher and critic of pop phenomena and as a mirror of global networks of consumerism, interpretation and exchange.

The book was released on the occasion of Murakami's exhibition "Ego. The Japanese artist himself conceived the exhibition as a work of art by creating new ways of displaying it, including sculptural pedestals with digital animation, a circus tent that serves as an indoor cinema and an impressive 3.5-meter-long painting, all of which are featured in the book.

Specifications
Title: Takashi Murakami: Ego
Author: Takashi Murakami
Publisher: Rizzoli
Size: 290 x 238 x 37 mm
Size: 268 pages
Weight: 1691 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780847838899

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