Takashi Murakami contraint d’annuler la réalisation de JellyFish Eyes Part 2

Dans un témoignage émouvant, l’artiste contemporain révélait qu’il ne pourra pas donner suite à son film de science-fiction. Pour cause, la crise sanitaire qui impacte encore notre vie quotidienne et qui a perturbé tous les projets artistiques.

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This spring, I streamed a series of cooking show of a sort on Instagram Live. I’m sure those who watched them were utterly confused, but I was trying to buoy my own thoroughly sunken feelings through these streamings. With the sudden swoop of COVID-19 pandemic, my company faced bankruptcy and I had to give up on a number of projects, the most symbolic of which being the production of my sci-fi feature film, Jellyfish Eyes Part 2: Mahashankh. For nine long years, I had persevered! It was a film that was to realize my childish dreams! The enormous budget I poured into this project, as well as my tenacious persistence, put a constant and tremendous stress on my company’s operation for the past nine years. But at the same time, I was able to endure various hardships because I had this project. Faced with the current predicament, however, I was persuaded by both my business consultant and tax attorney that I must, simply must try and drastically reduce our business tax by filing the film’s production cost as tax-exempt expenditure. To that end, I am going to produce and release a series of videos to publicly announce the discontinuation of the film’s production. (To be clear, this is an entirely legitimate procedure—I’m not trying to evade tax!) These videos will be released against the backdrop of our struggle to avoid an economic catastrophe, but perhaps it may have a cathartic effect on the viewers/my followers to see the story of stupid Murakami’s failure. Long story short, I’m a silly human being for whom the moment of bliss is when I am thinking my truly childish sci-fi thoughts. I don’t know how many episodes the series will end up being, but a series it will be, so please come along with me on this journey for a little while.

A post shared by Takashi Murakami (@takashipom) on Jun 30, 2020 at 8:02am PDT

Dans un post Instagram, il explique qu’il n’a plus l’énergie, ni les moyens financiers pour continuer.

JellyFish Eyes partie 1, très futuriste et original, sortait en 2013 au Japon, mais la suite est en réalisation depuis 2012. Il écrit sur les réseaux que ce film réalisait ses rêves d’enfants et que durant plusieurs années maintenant, il a tout fait pour le produire.

JellyFish Eyes sorti le 26 avril 2013 au Japon

Cet artiste que l’on connait pour ses peintures très imprégnés d’une culture japonaise et des mangas, est très influent par l’univers qu’il cherche à montrer dans ses œuvres.

Mais, cette crise du coronavirus à touché beaucoup de réalisateur ou d’artiste qui doivent décaler leur tournage et remettre à plus tard leur création.C’est donc avec regret qu’il annonçait que la partie 2 de son film n’aura pas lieu.

Par la suite, il proposera des épisodes making off qui retraceront l’avancé du film et son ambitieuse réalisation.

Takashi Murakami, prévoit, toutefois, des nouvelles expositions de peintures et de sculptures. Il veut surtout montrer que le métier d’artiste, dans de telle période, est très stressant et met le travail d’une équipe à rude épreuve.

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? Thanks to all this, I have been managing to keep up my activity as a popular artist, but I have never been complacent about my situation. Instead, I have constantly been thinking how I might become the mirror that reflects this era and have been doing everything in my power to simultaneously execute every and all such ideas. I mentioned how my company has faced the possibility of bankruptcy in the video about abandoning my film project, yet we have in fact been facing this very risk at the end of every single month—it’s a routine, and a terrifying one at that. I have always been pouring whatever funds I have into every imaginable project. Needless to say, in the past few months of the pandemic, not just me but numerous company owners around the world must have been going through tough times, scrambling to stay afloat. So to come back to the question of what an artist is, if I were to posit that they must be a living proof of an era, then vividly depicting my suffering and struggles in this present chaos is also a job I must execute. And so I forge ahead with my endeavors while literally making a fool of myself for all to see. These images show the production of my large-scale sculpture in progress. I have been funding this production entirely on my own. The work is being made at #WallaWallaFoundry in Washington State in the U.S., and it had been scheduled to be completed in May. Now, its completion has be postponed until this fall. When plans get upended and the future becomes unpredictable, what choices should an artist make? How shall they choose to live? In the future, after my death, it will become clear whether all this commotion was for something worthwhile, or whether I was merely an artist full of foolishness. I am 58 now, so I wouldn't live another 40 years at the most; you’ll be able to examine the result relatively soon. So in the meantime, please continue speculating as you wish and wait for the verdict. translation @tabi_the_fat

A post shared by Takashi Murakami (@takashipom) on Jul 1, 2020 at 5:32pm PDT

Le monde est quelque peu culturellement en pause, même si l’imagination des créateurs ne s’arrête pas pour autant. Cependant, les matériaux,et le budget que leur travail nécessite peut parfois conduire à devoir renoncer à des projets.

Son histoire et son parcours nous fait comprendre que nous sommes dans une période cruciale pour l’avenir des métiers de l’art et que la solidarité sera toujours la réponse à de telles difficultés.

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Takashi Murakami contraint d’annuler la réalisation de JellyFish Eyes Part 2

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