‘Super Flat artists create their own version of popular culture to draw attention to the dominance of media, entertainment and consumption,’ 村上 隆

Takashi Murakami, has made his final pit-stop over in Spain at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao after stops in Los Angeles, New York and Germany.With a complete selection of over 90 works in different media he has created a dizzying world filled with mood flowers, singing moss, magic mushrooms and morphing creatures and  he didn’t stop at the museum. So imagine an entire city packaged with Murakami’s bright palette of pop, the flatness of traditional Japanese art and some Surrealist movement elements.

Now I’m only waiting for a jellyfish eyed plain to take me there.

I can remove two huge desires from my wish-list: I will visit Berlin and I will see the Pictopia exhibition this month. What a great combination: Berlin transformed into a wild, daring and stylish character biotope with no limits to any media or style. Cool exhibits with giant puppets, hidden love shacks, a koala bear peepshow. All made by artists who remix and sample, condense the surreal and uncanny, inflate all proportions and stage bizarre rituals to introduce their characters.

Source: Pictoplasma.com

New works by Hans van Bentem coming up. Here’s early stage still in China.

source: Hans van Bentem (himself)