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Item Number: 111017
Title: MURAKAMI Versailles
Author: Dagen, Philippe (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782915173727
Description: Paris: Xavier Barral, 2010. 30cm., hardcover, 256pp., 125 color illus. English text. Summary: The marvelous chambers of the Château de Versailles boast such overwhelming splendors of décor and craft that it might seem the height of folly to pit the works of any one artist against them. But in fact, such a collaboration turns out to be a formula for great success, when the right artist is given the reins. Jeff Koons managed it in 2008, and in 2010, Japanese Pop impresario Takashi Murakami rose to the challenge. In a grand hall sporting a vaulted ceiling thick with paint and gold stands a snowmanlike construction, stacked spheres of grinning Technicolor flowers that sprouted gleeful tentacles and antennae, while a blonde manga minx in a near-pornographic maid’s costume offers an exuberant gesture of welcome. This is “my Versailles, manga style,” Murakami declares, throwing down the gauntlet to those who would preserve Versailles from such glorious and fantastical encounters; “I am the Cheshire cat that welcomes Alice inWonderland with its diabolic smile, and chatters away as she wanders around the Château.” Across 125 color plates, this magnificent volume documents the show’s 22 works, which included seven new sculptures never before exhibited.
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