村上隆のインスタグラム(takashipom) - 9月13日 07時35分

My exhibition, which opens on September 20, 2018 at Gagosian Hong Kong, is now titled Change the Rule!, but I had actually proposed two options. The other one, I believe, better articulated the essence of this show. It went rambling on like this: I think 2018 has been quite an amazing year for artist Takashi Murakami. You could say I’m in my artistic prime, a fish at its peak fattiness. Really, it’s the best year ever for me, with enough guts, energy, and spirit to take on one challenge after another, turning ideas into works in quick succession. This is an exhibition that takes place in Hong Kong in the fall of this optimal year.
Now, you might wonder what I’m scribbling down here on this small painting. This is an attempt to apologetically explain how I was unable to complete one of the large works I had promised for the show and ended up inconveniencing the gallery. In a sense it’s an apology for not making the deadline but it also explains why things have turned out the way they have—essentially, it’s my excuse. But by spelling things out in detail here, I hope to share with you the torment of an artist or the environment surrounding artistic creation. On that note, I will explain the process of my painting production.
When I was 36, I suffered from gout. Shortly after New Year’s Day, my right leg swelled up and doubled in size; I had to cut my jeans open from the hip to get my leg out. Tan Tan Bo Puking—a.k.a. Gerotan was my first work in which I depicted the way I might deal with the fear of steadily approaching death due to aging. It’s not death itself or the world beyond death that I’m afraid of—rather, I abhor and fear the physical pain and mental suffering in the process of approaching death. It’s as though I am producing paintings as a prescribed method of alleviating such fear.
When you are young, your brain’s instantaneous force alone can haul the process of generating artwork; your body is also fresh, so you can binge drink and party hard with friends—though since I didn’t do drugs, having been turned off after a bad trip from smoking ganja when I visited Nepal at age 25, I would just smoke cigarettes and pull all-nighters playing games, ?

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