村上隆さんのインスタグラム写真 - (村上隆Instagram)「Rhapsody of a Foolish Family: Fukujuro, Takashi, and Yuji Murakami is a three-person show featuring a father and his two sons. “Family” signifies the interpersonal narrative structure in which a fertile couple pair up and have children they subsequently may or may not manage to raise, inevitably creating the inseverable tie of blood relations; love and hate pile up in layers because of this unbreakable relationship. Each family has its own exhausting story, and the world is swarming with them. The Murakami family I belong to has its own story, but it’s not particularly a messy one. As far as drama goes, it’s pretty thin. One thing that sets us apart from other families, however, is that we produce a tremendous number of artworks between us. My father is Fukujuro and my mother is Itsuko. I am their first son, Takashi, and the second son is my brother Yuji. We are a family of four. My father was a taxi driver. My mother was a housewife, but to supplement the family income she also worked part-time when I was in junior high school and high school. Fukujuro worked until age 75, but on the side he always created his art that amounted to junk as a hobby, accumulating them over the years. Itsuko resented them and wished to throw them all out, but on account of their long marriage she managed to put up with them, stopping short of discarding them. As a result, Fukujuro’s room increasingly filled up with junk over time. I had opened a small gallery in 2010 within Nakano Broadway in Tokyo where I had free rein to do as I pleased. Hoping for my parents' marital harmony, I, their son, exhibited Fukujuro’s junk for sale there, since it didn’t matter that the motivation and the content of the show were lousy. As it turned out, friends and acquaintances of Kaikai Kiki found them interesting and, granted they were cheap, bought almost the entire show. Fukujuro subsequently had offers to exhibit at other galleries, participating in a two-person show at Tri Gallery Ochanomizu in Tokyo that specializes in ceramics and illustrations, as well as in a group show at Aoi Gallery in Osaka, the contemporary art gallery where I had made my artistic debut years ago. 👉 Continue」12月23日 12時11分