Takashi's a tad tense about Versailles

19 July '10 by the editors

Japanese superstar artist Takashi Murakami has told French newspaper Le Figaro that he's a little nervous about his forthcoming blockbuster show at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris this September.

"I'm slightly fearful of the public reaction to my works in this historic context..I don't know if it will be good or bad." And how controversial does he expect the exhibition to be? "I'm not the first [contemporary artist to show there]. I don't think I'll be criticised as much as Jeff Koons was (his Balloon Dog work was a visual shock)."

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