[Press Release]

Please join us at the press preview for Flowers & Skulls by Takashi Murakami, opening at Gagosian Gallery on Thursday November 29. The artist will be present for a photo call, and Nick Simunovic, Managing Director of Gagosian Gallery Asia, will meet with the media and provide a guided tour of the exhibition.

For his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, Takashi Murakami will present a new group of original works in multiple variations on two of his signature motifs: flowers and skulls.Infinitely repeatable, flowers and skulls have been prominent symbols in Murakami’s visual language since they first appeared in his work in the early 1990s. Murakami has used a near identical flower form for more than twenty years in a quest to universalise this malleable symbol which holds mass appeal. The skulls first appeared in his Time Bokan series (1993–), which borrow their skull-shaped mushroom cloud from the eponymous Japanese TV animé series from the 1970s. The new skulls, multilayered and intricately rendered, debuted in 2010 and are featured in the current exhibition.