Taki Murakishi

Taki Murakishi was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1975. He lives and works between Tokyo and Detroit.

Murakishi creates portraits of his friends, the music scene and Tokyo, only to twist, layer and rework them into abstractions of his life.

“So-called abstract painting has never been wholly original, has never been its own end. Such creation exists only where art presents images that take nothing from what has been imagined, neither repeating or modifying a particular artist's vision, but inventing its own, liberated from both and all.

One must move toward an art where everything must be sacrificed to the truths and necessities of a new millennium, toward those elements of a pure and eternal art, full and infinitely beyond our known experience. One must move toward the pixel and beyond.”     

-  Taki Murakishi, from INVENTING THE PIXEL: ABSTRACTION IN THE 21st CENTURY