"Superflat"
2001-01-14 until 2001-05-06
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Los Angeles, CA, USA

The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center presents Superflat. The exhibition surveys a tendency in Japanese art, animation, and graphic design towards two-dimensionality. An overall patterning of colors and shapes is often the result of such flattening, and the subsequent weightlessness in the works reflects the speed and agility with which Japanese popular culture changes to embrace new sensibilities.

Organized by artist Takashi Murakami, the exhibition includes painting, photography, works on paper, video, computer animation, graphic design, cartoons, and sculpture by some of the most exciting artists working in Japan. The MOCA presentation of Superflat, coordinated by research assistant Michael Darling, will be the first outside of Japan.

In-kind support has been provided by Canon.

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