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Madsaki Studio, 2020
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Medium: hand-signed offset lithograph
Year: 2020
Edition: 300
Sheet size: 29 x 21.75"
Image size: 29 x 21.75"
Framed size: 38.5 x 31.5"
Signature: signed and dated 'Madsaki 2021' and annotated lower center
Year: 2020
Edition: 300
Sheet size: 29 x 21.75"
Image size: 29 x 21.75"
Framed size: 38.5 x 31.5"
Signature: signed and dated 'Madsaki 2021' and annotated lower center
About the Work
"Madsaki Studio" is an offset lithograph created by MADSAKI in 2020. From the edition of 300, the artwork is signed and dated 'Madsaki 2021' and annotated lower center. The artwork is framed in a contemporary white frame and has a framed size of 38.5 x 31.5". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
MADSAKI is a Japanese contemporary artist known for fusing street-art irreverence with art-historical quotation. Born in Osaka in 1974 and raised partly in New Jersey, he graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1996 before developing a practice shaped by migration, pop culture, graffiti, and a sharp sense of cultural displacement.
His signature works often remake famous paintings—such as the Mona Lisa, Guernica, or works by Matisse and Hockney—using acrylic and aerosol, with loose spray-painted lines and faces that seem to laugh, cry, or mock the authority of the original. Rather than simple parody, these images feel like acts of translation: Western masterpieces are filtered through MADSAKI’s own bilingual, bicultural experience, turning reverence into something anxious, funny, and raw.
MADSAKI’s relationship with Takashi Murakami has been central to his visibility in the contemporary art world. He is associated with Kaikai Kiki, the art production and gallery company founded by Murakami, and sources describe him as maintaining a close relationship with Kaikai Kiki Gallery; Walls Tokyo also identifies him as a Kaikai Kiki member who has collaborated with Murakami. Murakami’s platform helped situate MADSAKI within a broader Japanese contemporary art network that moves fluidly between fine art, commercial imagery, and pop culture. Yet MADSAKI’s voice remains distinct: where Murakami is often polished, hyper-flat, and spectacular, MADSAKI’s work is deliberately messy, emotional, and unstable.
What makes MADSAKI compelling is this tension between control and collapse. His paintings look casual at first, even careless, but their roughness is carefully aimed. Through humor, vandalism, and appropriation, he questions who gets to inherit “high culture” and what happens when canonical images are remade by someone living between languages and worlds.
Madsaki Studio, 2020
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$1,985.00
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