Year: 2018
Medium: Acrylic on canvas mounted on aluminum
Dimensions: 141.6 × 120.3 cm (55 3/4 × 47 3/8 in.)
Acquired from SBI Art Auction, 2022
This is a collaboration work of Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh. Takashi Murakami, a leading contemporary artist representing Japan both with his name and his quality in art, and the creator of “Superflat”, an art concept he proposed in 2000 that spread around the world from Japan. Virgil Abloh, founder of the high-end street brand Off-White, and the Creative Director of Louis Vuitton in his late years. This work could be described as a rather extreme mixture of the self-portrait by 17th century Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini which Abloh used in the 2018 Autumn/Winter collection of Off-White, and Murakami’s character, Mr. DOB. Various variations of “Bernini DOB” which is connected to this work were displayed at the exhibitions of the duo at Gagosian Gallery in London, Paris, and Los Angeles throughout 2018.
