Paint Yourself! Murakama’s New Exhibition

Contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is featuring his “Takashi Murakami Paints Self Portraits” show in Paris’ flamboyant Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin starting September 15.

The exhibition will present five sculptures, two films and 17 paintings, including Murakami’s new Chrysanthemums series of tondos, circular-format paintings that are a pseudo-tribute to the 17th-century Japanese artist Ogata Korin.

Also continuing his collaboration with Kanye West, whom he worked with on the music video Good Morning and the album art for Graduation, Murakami crafted Kanye’s signature omnivore mascot into four Kanye Bear sculptures in gold, platinum and bronze.