{"id":17611,"title":"The Birth of a Universe","dimensions":"variable dimensions","date_begin":"2013-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the artist and Kaikai Kiki Gallery","cached_tag_list":"maquette barok installation sculpture","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"birth-of-a-universe","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/040/209/medium_500/Takashi_Murakami__The_Birth_of_a_universe.jpg?1521798721","cached_actor_names":"Takashi Murakami","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/040/209/large/Takashi_Murakami__The_Birth_of_a_universe.jpg?1521798721","poster_credits":"Courtesy of the artist and Kaikai Kiki Gallery","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eTakashi Murakami creates a busy biotope that is seemingly teeming with vibrancy, but behind which lie emptiness, superficiality and nihilism. To emphasise this, he uses the commercial market principles of Pop Art and has his designs reproduced from his studio as a mass product. Luc Tuymans points to the extreme PR idea behind this process; a practice that was initiated by Rubens during the Baroque by working with assistants and executors in different workshops. Luc Tuymans shows Murakami\u0026rsquo;s artistic and crafts-like process by means of a photomontage and various models \u0026ndash; in Styrofoam \u0026ndash; of the golden sculpture \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBirth of a Universe.\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nText: Hans Willemse\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTranslations: Michael Meert\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eTakashi Murakami cre\u0026euml;ert een drukke biotoop die schijnbaar wemelt van de levendigheid, maar waarachter leegte, oppervlakkigheid en nihilisme schuilgaan. Om dit te benadrukken, hanteert hij de commerci\u0026euml;le marktprincipes van de popart en laat hij zijn ontwerpen vanuit zijn atelier eindeloos reproduceren als massaproduct. Luc Tuymans duidt op de extreme PR-gedachte achter dit proces; een praktijk die tijdens de barok door Rubens op gang werd gebracht door te werken met assistenten en uitvoerders in verschillende ateliers. Luc Tuymans toont het artistieke \u003cem\u003earts \u0026amp; crafts\u003c/em\u003e-proces van Murakami aan de hand van een fotomontage en verschillende maquettes \u0026ndash; in piepschuim \u0026ndash; van de gouden sculptuur \u003cem\u003eThe Birth of a Universe\u003c/em\u003e. Door in een vitrinekast het voorwerp te tonen in de vorm van een sculptuur, benadrukt de curator de visuele link met een kerk uit de barok, die eenzelfde slingerbeweging in de hoogte maakt en zich als een verhoogde trapvorm ruimtelijk vergroot in het beeldvlak.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTekst: Hans Willemse\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eMurakami cr\u0026eacute;e\u0026nbsp;un biotope turbulent qui d\u0026eacute;borde de vivacit\u0026eacute;, mais qui dissimule de la superficialit\u0026eacute;, du vide et du nihilisme. Pour le souligner, il applique les principes commerciaux du march\u0026eacute; du pop art et fait reproduire ses cr\u0026eacute;ations \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;infini dans son atelier, comme un produit de masse. Luc Tuymans fait le parall\u0026egrave;le entre l\u0026rsquo;id\u0026eacute;e de relations publiques \u0026ndash; pouss\u0026eacute;e \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;extr\u0026ecirc;me \u0026ndash; qui sous-tend ce processus et la pratique que Rubens a lanc\u0026eacute;e \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;poque baroque en travaillant avec des assistants et des ex\u0026eacute;cutants dans plusieurs ateliers. Tuymans montre le processus d\u0026rsquo;artisanat artistique de Murakami \u0026agrave; la faveur d\u0026rsquo;un montage photographique de diff\u0026eacute;rentes maquettes \u0026ndash; en polystyr\u0026egrave;ne \u0026ndash; de la sculpture dor\u0026eacute;e\u003cem\u003e Birth Cry of a Universe\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTexte: Hans Willemse\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTraductions: Isabelle Grynberg\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":3122,"name":"Takashi Murakami","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}