The KaiKai Kiki Gallery カイカイキキギャラリー

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Takashi Murakami chose the Motoazabu district near Roppongi to set up his KaiKai Kiki gallery, an emblematic place of the Tokyo art scene.

 

The Murakami Factory

 

Before being a gallery, Kaikai Kiki is the name of the company founded in 1996 by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami under the name Hiropon Factory.

"At that time", says the artist, "the 'factory' was nothing more than a small group of people who helped me create my sculptures and paintings."

It was in 2001 that this production workshop, largely inspired by Andy Warhol, became a real company, under the name of "Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd ".

From the production of large-scale works of art to the management of artists to the sale of derivatives, the company today employs a hundred people in Tokyo and New York.

 

 

Read also: Pop culture in Japan

 

"Neo-pop artists such as Takashi Murakami or Yoshitomo Nara reflect the anxiety that followed the end of the economic bubble of the 1980s," said Yuko Hasegawa, Artistic Director of the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art and curator of the Japanorama exhibition at the Center Pompidou-Metz.

"They deliver a speech that, beyond the apparent didactic clarity of their works, challenges the socio-political and ecological model of Japan."


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