What is LUNE ROUGE?
Besides being French for Red Moon, Lune Rouge is an exhibition space managed by Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil. The exhibition launches a multi-platform initiative featuring world-renowned artist Takashi Murakami. The exhibition will take place across four venues: Lune Rouge Ibiza; HEART Ibiza; Art Projects Ibiza, in collaboration with Blum & Poe; and the Ibiza Gran Hotel – from April through October 2015. Lune Rouge’s philanthropic mission is to contribute culturally to Ibiza through a program of engaging exhibitions of both established and emerging artists. An important home to Mr. Laliberte for over thirty years his continued commitment aims at inspiring creativity and discovery through shared viewing, experiences, awareness and education. Lune Rouge combines a growing international audience with an established local community.
Who is Takashi Murakami?
Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo, and received his BFA, MFA, and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He founded the Hiropon factory in Tokyo in 1996, which later evolved into Kaikai Kiki Co., a large-scale art production and art management corporation. In 2000, he organized a paradigmatic exhibition of Japanese art titled Superflat, which traced the origins of contemporary Japanese visual pop culture to historical Japanese art. His work has been shown extensively in venues around the world, including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Qatar Museum Authority; Palace of Versailles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Brooklyn Museum; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Calle Alcalde Bartomeu Rosselló Sala, 7, 07800, Ibiza, Spain
Hours: 11:00a – 2:00p, 5:00p – 9:00p, Tuesday-Saturday. Closed Sunday & Monday
http://lunerougeibiza.org/
