It's a Flat World

Flick through your FYP, and you’ll see the world Superflat artist Takashi Murakami predicted a quarter of a century ago. In the spirit of his celebrated theory – which imagined the collision of high and low cultures – we invite fashion and creative-world figures to ask him anything as he gears up for a new collab with Louis Vuitton

JACK MILLS

Takashi Murakami’s painting “The 500 Arhats”, featuring a solar system, a cross-eyed dragon and a group of demonic Buddhas, is one of the largest in the world. The length of the canvas would cover the width of two Heathrow Terminal Four runways and reach the height of Big Ben. To launch the work in 2016, the artist filled the 53rd floor of the Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills with clowns, cosplayers and the Japanese manga characters that coloured his imagination as a kid. At the party, the artist encouraged buyers to mingle with the hired entertainment as if it was a networking event, and the walls between adulthood and childhood seemed to intentionally blur. “Min Tanaka, one of the best-known dancers in Japan, performed a silent, mostly ignored piece in…

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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2025

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