If art is the most honest barometer of technology's effect on the human condition, Takashi Murakami's latest works uncover a Japan still quietly reeling from 2011's Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and struggling with the ever-present specter of the ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima
But aside from cultural imperatives, Murakami's new tech-themed work was largely powered by his adoption of tablets.
"The reason I can now execute some of these new large scale and very complex images is because I've been using the Wacom tablets," Murakami told me during a meeting at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, just hours before the show's official opening Read more...
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