Takashi Murakami: Infinity Franz West Robert Therrien

Robert Therrien

with terms arranged in ascending and descending spatial and temporal hierarchies

This book was published on the occasion of Alex Israel: Freeway at Fosun Foundation

Seeking to revivify and extend the conventions of ink and wash painting

A section of the book is devoted to Picasso’s plaster sculpture La Femme Enceinte (1959) and includes a discussion of Roe Ethridge’s vivid

Takashi Murakami: Infinity Franz West Robert TherrienInfinity, a limited edition screen print by Takashi Murakami, belongs to a set of three prints derived from a scene in Gore Verbinskis 2006 adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest in which octopean villain Davy Jones plays an organ with his tentacles. Abstracting comprehensively from this already curious incident, Murakami pictures an amoebic figure eight shape atop a ground of colorful Benday dots and expressive drips and spills.