TAKASHI MURAKAMI

«Takashi Murakami has been called Tokyo's son of Warhol, but the scope of this most protean and dynamic of artists would be the envy of Andy. Murakami's Kanhai Kiki corporation which has branches in Tokyo and Long Island New York combines the role of studio, PR company, art factory and seed bed for young artists...

-How do you feel when people describe you as the japanese successor to Andy Warhol?

-«It's OK. Who knows? When I die maybe they will say about some Russian or Indian artist: Oh you are the Russian or indian Takashi Murakami. My work is colorful and looks like pop art so I won't escape from Andy Warhol and that can be good and bad."

-The Art Newspaper
Dec 2 2007