The work of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will be shown from February 17 until May 31 in the Museum Guggenheim of Bilbao under the title ‘Copyright Murakami’.

Takashi Murakami (Tokyo, 1962) is one of the most influential artists to emerge from postwar Japan.

His work covers a broad range of art forms, including painting, sculpture, industrial design, anime, fashion and other media and merchandise in popular culture.Murakami belongs to a generation of artists that came to prominence on the crest of the late 1980s’ economic upswing in Japan and whose pictorial language brings together motifs linked to popular culture.

His work takes a critical look at contemporary Japanese society, the legacy of the country’s cultural tradition, how it developed after the World War 2, and its relationship with the western world, particularly the US.