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Banksy • frAGILE • Legacy of War Foundation , by Gentle Mental on Dec 26, 2022 13:46:59 GMT 1, What if Russian hackers won most of it? Oh. The irony curtain.
What if Russian hackers won most of it? Oh. The irony curtain.
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David Shrigley "artist eaten by a wolf" , by Gentle Mental on Dec 26, 2022 13:40:49 GMT 1, What’s the edition size? Looks unlimited…
Bought one nonetheless. Thank you.
What’s the edition size? Looks unlimited…
Bought one nonetheless. Thank you.
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Ryol 🇲🇨 Print Release • Show News • Art For Sale, by Gentle Mental on Sept 17, 2022 5:06:30 GMT 1, Whta is "FINE ART PRINT" ? Inkjet? Silkscreen? Fine ink? Super cool 20 words powerpaintball monkey piss?
Whta is "FINE ART PRINT" ? Inkjet? Silkscreen? Fine ink? Super cool 20 words powerpaintball monkey piss?
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New David Shrigley linocuts, by Gentle Mental on Aug 31, 2022 12:47:54 GMT 1, Nice one. Works well in black and white. More reasonably priced than most shrigs.
Such is the way of his market. Now or never. Fomo and all that.
Nice one. Works well in black and white. More reasonably priced than most shrigs.
Such is the way of his market. Now or never. Fomo and all that.
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Shepard Fairey • Obama Prints, by Gentle Mental on Aug 13, 2022 8:50:57 GMT 1, Does anyone has any auction recent price records of PROGRESS 24x36 silkscreen, and HOPE (ed 600 offset litho)? The last i can find on artsy is 40k USD a year ago at sotheby's - was that an anomaly or the way things are moving forward?
Does anyone has any auction recent price records of PROGRESS 24x36 silkscreen, and HOPE (ed 600 offset litho)? The last i can find on artsy is 40k USD a year ago at sotheby's - was that an anomaly or the way things are moving forward?
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Takashi murakami silkscreen on NTWRK $500, by Gentle Mental on Jun 9, 2022 5:29:58 GMT 1, It’s for his fans. It’s quite unusual to have a Murakami print like this one. From kaikaiki on the painting:
Takashi Murakami, Rhapsody of a Foolish Family, 2019 Acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas mounted on wood panel φ120×5cm ©2019 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Portrait photo by Kentaro Hirao To celebrate the publication of Good Timing Club, an art book by Fukujuro Murakami, artist Takashi Murakami’s father, Kaikai Kiki Gallery is pleased to present a group show featuring Fukujuro along with his two sons, Takashi and his younger brother and Nihonga artist Yuji. For decades, Fukujuro, an 85-year-old former taxi driver, kept producing artworks in his spare time. His sons are each an established artist who specializes in contemporary art and Nihonga, respectively. We are excited to invite you to their first-ever father-and-sons exhibition.
A Message from Takashi Murakami Rhapsody of a Foolish Family: Fukujuro, Takashi, and Yuji Murakami is a three-person show featuring a father and his two sons.
“Family” signifies the interpersonal narrative structure in which a fertile couple pair up and have children they subsequently may or may not manage to raise, inevitably creating the inseverable tie of blood relations; love and hate pile up in layers because of this unbreakable relationship. Each family has its own exhausting story, and the world is swarming with them.
The Murakami family I belong to has its own story, but it’s not particularly a messy one. As far as drama goes, it’s pretty thin. One thing that sets us apart from other families, however, is that we produce a tremendous number of artworks between us. My father is Fukujuro and my mother is Itsuko. I am their first son, Takashi, and the second son is my brother Yuji. We are a family of four.
My father was a taxi driver. My mother was a housewife, but to supplement the family income she also worked part-time when I was in junior high school and high school. Fukujuro worked until age 75, but on the side he always created his art that amounted to junk as a hobby, accumulating them over the years. Itsuko resented them and wished to throw them all out, but on account of their long marriage she managed to put up with them, stopping short of discarding them. As a result, Fukujuro’s room increasingly filled up with junk over time.
I had opened a small gallery in 2010 within Nakano Broadway in Tokyo where I had free rein to do as I pleased. Hoping for my parents’ marital harmony, I, their son, exhibited Fukujuro’s junk for sale there, since it didn’t matter that the motivation and the content of the show were lousy. As it turned out, friends and acquaintances of Kaikai Kiki found them interesting and, granted they were cheap, bought almost the entire show.
Fukujuro subsequently had offers to exhibit at other galleries, participating in a two-person show at Tri Gallery Ochanomizu in Tokyo that specializes in ceramics and illustrations, as well as in a group show at Aoi Gallery in Osaka, the contemporary art gallery where I had made my artistic debut years ago. His works were somehow also well received at these venues.
Fukujuro may have been pleased by this turn of events, but he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s around the time his second exhibition closed. Their story now shifted from that of a harmonious marriage to one of caregiving. Drained by the responsibility, now Itsuko suffered cerebral infraction. Today, they both live in an assisted living facility.
Making an unwarranted assumption that Fukujuro’s end was near (he’s still alive), I decided to photograph his more popular works and publish an art book that the Murakami family could cherish as his tombstone. I asked Noriko Miyamura and Miwa Takahashi to edit the book; Takaya Goto, my long-time friend since my time in NY and the designer who specializes in art books, and his office, designed it. After about two years of work, we created an exquisite art book, which includes Fukujuro’s portrait by photographer Shin Suzuki.
Those who saw the book were moved in turn, and some suggested that I should do an exhibition that surveyed the publication. There seems to be a timely mixture of anxiety and sympathy regarding the way of aging life here in Japan, so this project may belong to the so-called genre of “inspiration porn,” but I thought offering up an embarrassing aspect of my family could be one form of art appreciation. So I decided to hold an exhibition, in part to promote the book.
The show will mainly feature small works by Fukujuro, with a token presentation of my own and my brother Yuji’s works. Fukujuro’s works are primarily his hobby creations such as small tools he made in everyday settings, but the origin of his art making lies in our childhood. As a young married couple my parents raised their children in poverty in downtown Tokyo, Sakashita 3 cho-me in Itabashi Ward, where they moved to from Kitakyushu in search of work. Fukujuro would wash, dry, and save the wooden boards that came with kamaboko fish cakes, constructing handmade toys for my brother and me by gluing them together. That was how he started creating.
While we worked on Fukujuro’s art book, the editors Noriko Miyamura and Miwa Takahashi found various influences of his work on mine, amusing themselves. Case in point, I have directly inherited his habit of attaching casters to wooden bases he makes. Not only my work but many pieces of furniture in my offices and studios have casters attached to them.
Fukujuro the father has passed the various negative aspects of his developmental disability onto his sons, inadvertently making art the family’s livelihood… I hope you’ll shake your head and sigh, amazed at this silly family.
Again, our plan for this exhibition is to showcase Fukujuro’s less-than-art paintings and objects, as well as pieces of furniture with casters. Alongside these, we plan to display some of my own and my brother Yuji’s artworks.
Admission is free. If the works speak to you, I hope you will purchase Fukujuro’s book. Our hope is that the embarrassing aspects of the Murakami family you find in the book will offer solace to you in some way.
It’s for his fans. It’s quite unusual to have a Murakami print like this one. From kaikaiki on the painting:
Takashi Murakami, Rhapsody of a Foolish Family, 2019 Acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas mounted on wood panel φ120×5cm ©2019 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Portrait photo by Kentaro Hirao To celebrate the publication of Good Timing Club, an art book by Fukujuro Murakami, artist Takashi Murakami’s father, Kaikai Kiki Gallery is pleased to present a group show featuring Fukujuro along with his two sons, Takashi and his younger brother and Nihonga artist Yuji. For decades, Fukujuro, an 85-year-old former taxi driver, kept producing artworks in his spare time. His sons are each an established artist who specializes in contemporary art and Nihonga, respectively. We are excited to invite you to their first-ever father-and-sons exhibition.
A Message from Takashi Murakami Rhapsody of a Foolish Family: Fukujuro, Takashi, and Yuji Murakami is a three-person show featuring a father and his two sons.
“Family” signifies the interpersonal narrative structure in which a fertile couple pair up and have children they subsequently may or may not manage to raise, inevitably creating the inseverable tie of blood relations; love and hate pile up in layers because of this unbreakable relationship. Each family has its own exhausting story, and the world is swarming with them.
The Murakami family I belong to has its own story, but it’s not particularly a messy one. As far as drama goes, it’s pretty thin. One thing that sets us apart from other families, however, is that we produce a tremendous number of artworks between us. My father is Fukujuro and my mother is Itsuko. I am their first son, Takashi, and the second son is my brother Yuji. We are a family of four.
My father was a taxi driver. My mother was a housewife, but to supplement the family income she also worked part-time when I was in junior high school and high school. Fukujuro worked until age 75, but on the side he always created his art that amounted to junk as a hobby, accumulating them over the years. Itsuko resented them and wished to throw them all out, but on account of their long marriage she managed to put up with them, stopping short of discarding them. As a result, Fukujuro’s room increasingly filled up with junk over time.
I had opened a small gallery in 2010 within Nakano Broadway in Tokyo where I had free rein to do as I pleased. Hoping for my parents’ marital harmony, I, their son, exhibited Fukujuro’s junk for sale there, since it didn’t matter that the motivation and the content of the show were lousy. As it turned out, friends and acquaintances of Kaikai Kiki found them interesting and, granted they were cheap, bought almost the entire show.
Fukujuro subsequently had offers to exhibit at other galleries, participating in a two-person show at Tri Gallery Ochanomizu in Tokyo that specializes in ceramics and illustrations, as well as in a group show at Aoi Gallery in Osaka, the contemporary art gallery where I had made my artistic debut years ago. His works were somehow also well received at these venues.
Fukujuro may have been pleased by this turn of events, but he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s around the time his second exhibition closed. Their story now shifted from that of a harmonious marriage to one of caregiving. Drained by the responsibility, now Itsuko suffered cerebral infraction. Today, they both live in an assisted living facility.
Making an unwarranted assumption that Fukujuro’s end was near (he’s still alive), I decided to photograph his more popular works and publish an art book that the Murakami family could cherish as his tombstone. I asked Noriko Miyamura and Miwa Takahashi to edit the book; Takaya Goto, my long-time friend since my time in NY and the designer who specializes in art books, and his office, designed it. After about two years of work, we created an exquisite art book, which includes Fukujuro’s portrait by photographer Shin Suzuki.
Those who saw the book were moved in turn, and some suggested that I should do an exhibition that surveyed the publication. There seems to be a timely mixture of anxiety and sympathy regarding the way of aging life here in Japan, so this project may belong to the so-called genre of “inspiration porn,” but I thought offering up an embarrassing aspect of my family could be one form of art appreciation. So I decided to hold an exhibition, in part to promote the book.
The show will mainly feature small works by Fukujuro, with a token presentation of my own and my brother Yuji’s works. Fukujuro’s works are primarily his hobby creations such as small tools he made in everyday settings, but the origin of his art making lies in our childhood. As a young married couple my parents raised their children in poverty in downtown Tokyo, Sakashita 3 cho-me in Itabashi Ward, where they moved to from Kitakyushu in search of work. Fukujuro would wash, dry, and save the wooden boards that came with kamaboko fish cakes, constructing handmade toys for my brother and me by gluing them together. That was how he started creating.
While we worked on Fukujuro’s art book, the editors Noriko Miyamura and Miwa Takahashi found various influences of his work on mine, amusing themselves. Case in point, I have directly inherited his habit of attaching casters to wooden bases he makes. Not only my work but many pieces of furniture in my offices and studios have casters attached to them.
Fukujuro the father has passed the various negative aspects of his developmental disability onto his sons, inadvertently making art the family’s livelihood… I hope you’ll shake your head and sigh, amazed at this silly family.
Again, our plan for this exhibition is to showcase Fukujuro’s less-than-art paintings and objects, as well as pieces of furniture with casters. Alongside these, we plan to display some of my own and my brother Yuji’s artworks.
Admission is free. If the works speak to you, I hope you will purchase Fukujuro’s book. Our hope is that the embarrassing aspects of the Murakami family you find in the book will offer solace to you in some way.
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Takashi murakami silkscreen on NTWRK $500, by Gentle Mental on Jun 9, 2022 2:27:21 GMT 1, Ed if 100 I think. I can’t be sure. 4 left? quite personal. Father and his two sons. All artists Apparently. So foolish.
thentwrk.app.link/Fja00liQHqb
Ed if 100 I think. I can’t be sure. 4 left? quite personal. Father and his two sons. All artists Apparently. So foolish. thentwrk.app.link/Fja00liQHqb
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Banksy Welcome Mat, by Gentle Mental on May 6, 2022 7:33:58 GMT 1, Wasn’t really directing at anyone. Hahah. Was processing why they would want to stop. 2million pounds later, these mats, the flipping, bitching, waitlisting, could be overshadowing everything else they do. Time to move on!
Tongue out of cheek, I’m still quite moved by this piece. This is one of Bamlsy’s best.
Wasn’t really directing at anyone. Hahah. Was processing why they would want to stop. 2million pounds later, these mats, the flipping, bitching, waitlisting, could be overshadowing everything else they do. Time to move on!
Tongue out of cheek, I’m still quite moved by this piece. This is one of Bamlsy’s best.
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Banksy Welcome Mat, by Gentle Mental on May 6, 2022 2:52:04 GMT 1, Every single thing they sell is meaningful. Banksy just raised tremendous amount of attention to it.
Perhaps it’s too much. And it’s becomes the banks mat shop.
Time to hand the reins back.
Every single thing they sell is meaningful. Banksy just raised tremendous amount of attention to it.
Perhaps it’s too much. And it’s becomes the banks mat shop.
Time to hand the reins back.
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Shrigley’sbprint signature. Where is it?, by Gentle Mental on May 4, 2022 14:27:02 GMT 1, I’m not sure there were two pieces of A4 printed sheets. Which I kept. Will need to dig that out tomorrow. Didn’t they mentioned it signed and numbered on their site? Shouldn’t it be signed and numbered in the print itself ?
I’m not sure there were two pieces of A4 printed sheets. Which I kept. Will need to dig that out tomorrow. Didn’t they mentioned it signed and numbered on their site? Shouldn’t it be signed and numbered in the print itself ?
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Shrigley’sbprint signature. Where is it?, by Gentle Mental on May 4, 2022 14:04:06 GMT 1, Iust saw You can’t stop me from singing my song colour screen print. Can’t find the signature nor the number ! Is it at the back? Or hidden?
Iust saw You can’t stop me from singing my song colour screen print. Can’t find the signature nor the number ! Is it at the back? Or hidden?
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Banksy Welcome Mat, by Gentle Mental on May 2, 2022 6:51:11 GMT 1, What’s the Ed size 6000? Still better than The Empresses!0
What’s the Ed size 6000? Still better than The Empresses!0
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Jonas Wood • Bonsai Print, by Gentle Mental on May 1, 2022 15:13:31 GMT 1, Are these letterpresses? Textured? What were the last 2 prinfs like?
Are these letterpresses? Textured? What were the last 2 prinfs like?
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Jonas Wood • Bonsai Print, by Gentle Mental on Apr 30, 2022 14:04:41 GMT 1, Anybody got one? Are these sold out? What’s the quality like?
Anybody got one? Are these sold out? What’s the quality like?
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Andy Warhol 🇺🇸 Real or Fake? • Sunday B. Morning Print, by Gentle Mental on Apr 11, 2022 13:30:03 GMT 1, Thanks for great advice. Those on eBay are tempting! Where are some cows going for less than 10 in auctions? Wouldn’t it find a consistent pricing by now?
Thanks for great advice. Those on eBay are tempting! Where are some cows going for less than 10 in auctions? Wouldn’t it find a consistent pricing by now?
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Andy Warhol 🇺🇸 Real or Fake? • Sunday B. Morning Print, by Gentle Mental on Apr 10, 2022 14:27:13 GMT 1, Hi I’m looking for Warhol silkscreen prints. But scared shitless picking up fakes. Whar kind of provenance should I ask for? How to tell if the Warhol is real ? My budget is for prints. Not Sunday b. But the signed by artist ones. For now the ones in the late 70s to 80s. Ang advice, gallery recommendations etc will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks. Gm
Hi I’m looking for Warhol silkscreen prints. But scared shitless picking up fakes. Whar kind of provenance should I ask for? How to tell if the Warhol is real ? My budget is for prints. Not Sunday b. But the signed by artist ones. For now the ones in the late 70s to 80s. Ang advice, gallery recommendations etc will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks. Gm
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Sam Durant 🇺🇸 Multimedia Artist • End White Supremacy , by Gentle Mental on Apr 8, 2022 14:57:19 GMT 1, And… sold out. Thank you. Goodnight. Try the fish. You’ve been great. Thank you. Good night.
And… sold out. Thank you. Goodnight. Try the fish. You’ve been great. Thank you. Good night.
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Sam Durant 🇺🇸 Multimedia Artist • End White Supremacy , by Gentle Mental on Apr 7, 2022 15:13:44 GMT 1, Powerful. Meaningful. Unique, sincere and urgent. Great cause. Not cheesy.
Powerful. Meaningful. Unique, sincere and urgent. Great cause. Not cheesy.
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How The Mighty Have Fallen, by Gentle Mental on Mar 17, 2022 16:49:40 GMT 1,
I’m still hoping to buy a canvas.
Who has a 1m x 1m Micallef for 2k?
I’m still hoping to buy a canvas.
Who has a 1m x 1m Micallef for 2k?
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Visit LONDON 🏴 Street Art, Galleries, Events, by Gentle Mental on Mar 16, 2022 13:40:45 GMT 1, You guys are the best!!!!!
You guys are the best!!!!!
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Visit LONDON 🏴 Street Art, Galleries, Events, by Gentle Mental on Mar 16, 2022 7:06:07 GMT 1, Hi Might be popping over to London next week or so - any good street/urban art galleries to visit?
London/near london all good.... thanks thanks thanks.
Thanks a billlion.
GM
Hi Might be popping over to London next week or so - any good street/urban art galleries to visit?
London/near london all good.... thanks thanks thanks.
Thanks a billlion.
GM
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Thierry Noir 🇨🇵 Berlin Wall • French Street Arist , by Gentle Mental on Mar 10, 2022 5:24:47 GMT 1, Congrats. Noir bulls to the moon!! Is 40k before or after premiums?
Congrats. Noir bulls to the moon!! Is 40k before or after premiums?
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Thierry Noir 🇨🇵 Berlin Wall • French Street Arist , by Gentle Mental on Mar 8, 2022 10:29:43 GMT 1, Everybody shills. As common as HPV infections. It’s sustain the high shilled price auction after auction that separates the brainwashes from the doodles.
Everybody shills. As common as HPV infections. It’s sustain the high shilled price auction after auction that separates the brainwashes from the doodles.
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Thierry Noir 🇨🇵 Berlin Wall • French Street Arist , by Gentle Mental on Mar 7, 2022 23:53:49 GMT 1, How to tell if it’s shilling? It ends quickly on the day of the big event with a price not far from the day before.
Which is kinda what happened to the U2 car…
Which is kinda like a premature ejaculation.
(Just teasing hennypennydandydoo. Just teasing. )
How to tell if it’s shilling? It ends quickly on the day of the big event with a price not far from the day before.
Which is kinda what happened to the U2 car…
Which is kinda like a premature ejaculation.
(Just teasing hennypennydandydoo. Just teasing. )
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Thierry Noir 🇨🇵 Berlin Wall • French Street Arist , by Gentle Mental on Mar 7, 2022 10:40:58 GMT 1, Noir is back. Unfortunately so is the Cold War.
Noir is back. Unfortunately so is the Cold War.
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Damien Hirst H10 • The Empresses, by Gentle Mental on Mar 7, 2022 10:34:38 GMT 1, Is it safe to assume Hirst won’t flood his market with more mega releases for the next 3 years?
Is it safe to assume Hirst won’t flood his market with more mega releases for the next 3 years?
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Yoko Ono - Imagine Peace timed edition for UNCERF, by Gentle Mental on Mar 6, 2022 1:13:52 GMT 1, John Lennon’s a huge fan. Good enough for me.
John Lennon’s a huge fan. Good enough for me.
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Nina Chanel Abney 🇺🇸 Race, Gender, Politics, Homophobia , by Gentle Mental on Feb 27, 2022 4:44:19 GMT 1, The sold out Nina and Murakami are back.
www.artsy.net/partner/interscope
Still thinking about picking up Party.
Hmmmmmm
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦, by Gentle Mental on Feb 26, 2022 5:49:21 GMT 1, Sanctions are the “thoughts and prayers” of this crisis.
The stock market rebounded with their best day in a long while.
Everybody clicks and comments.
Nobody really wants to fight the rapist.
We‘ll just threaten to block his credit card.
Sad.
Sanctions are the “thoughts and prayers” of this crisis.
The stock market rebounded with their best day in a long while.
Everybody clicks and comments.
Nobody really wants to fight the rapist.
We‘ll just threaten to block his credit card.
Sad.
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