Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Printed from two slightly displaced

Printed from two slightly displaced plates

Exploring effects of color

Oehlen’s use of watercolor marks a stylistic return to his hazy

gestural canvases overlaid with neon tubing that brought attention to her practice in the 2010s

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Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Printed from two slightly displacedThis monograph was published on the occasion of Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, a traveling exhibition that originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and subsequently traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. The first retrospective to focus exclusively on Murakamis painting, the exhibition surveyed his work from his first mature paintings of the early 1980s to expansive