This week is SUPERFLAT week on The Artsy Kappa! Over the course of the next 7 days I’ll be posting lots of interesting artists that identify with the superflat movement. Here is a little background to get you started:
Superflat started in 2000 as popular artist Takashi Murakami’s concept of postwar Japan’s Pop culture. It particularly resonates with otaku culture. The term superflat describes the 2D aspect of Japanese graphic art and animation as well as refers to the shallow nature of consumerism. Evidently, Murakami has a reductive gaze on postwar Japan’s Pop, but his tone is not gloomy at all. Superflat has since caught on as more artists explore the relationship between capitalism and Japanese pop culture.
“The world of the future might be like Japan is today─super flat.” -Takashi Murakami
