Sep 2, 2021
Takashi Murakami’s Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind (detail), 2017. From his show ‘Heads ↔ Heads’ at Galerie Perrotin, New York.
The work is Takashi’s interpretation of Soga Shohaku’s folding screen Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind at the MFA.
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/24944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6AmNs1tIKU
https://www.culturedmag.com/takashi-murakami/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/takashi-murakami-interview-1276460
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