Why More is More...

Article by Takashi Murakami (Published in Esquire Magazine) Click on title for jump to full article.

Artist Murakami makes the case for a maximalist aesthetic...

Why More is more.

August 18, 2008, 5:34 AM

Why More Is More...

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Our man in Tokyo -- painter, sculptor, and art-world iconoclast Takashi Murakami -- endorses maximalism.

By Takashi Murakami

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Esquire: For the purposes of this portfolio, we're defining maximalism broadly. As an aesthetic, it tends to deal with large-scale creations -- elaborate in design, ornate in detail, bright colors, and bold patterns. As a mind-set, it's even broader -- it applies to individuals whose imaginations run away with them. How's our thinking?

Takashi Murakami: There is a sci-fi television show that I recently discovered called Battlestar Galactica, and there's also a new Japanese animated show called Macross Frontier. The common thread between these two shows is that both of them are stories in which humanity has had no choice but to abandon Earth and fight for survival in outer space, battle with both non-Earth beings and robots, and question the meaning of life. I guess you could call them somewhat stereotypical. But the concept that is important to me is the one of outer space. I have never traveled to outer space, and have thus never felt the fearsome limitlessness of that pitch-black world -- but I think that perhaps this is the true maximalism that we are discussing here. Link



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