Through December 12th showing at the Château de Versailles are Takashi Murakami's 22 pieces of which 11 have been created exclusively for this exhibit. The pieces by the japanese artist become part of a dialogue between new and old, between tradition and Pop, between East and West. Versailles, one of the most widely known architectural and artistic symbols of french, and western, history serves as a the set piece for the dream-like worlds created by Murakami. The artist explains
"It is probable that the Versailles of my imagination corresponds to an exaggeration and a transformation in my mind so that it has become a kind of completely separate and unreal world. That is what I have tried to depict in this exhibition."
Between what the palace is and what Murakami has imagined, the result of the exhibit becomes a kind of dichotomous relationship between two opposites that, maybe purposely, end up mirroring each other. French Baroque meet Pop Baroque.
Via Art Daily, Château de Versailles
