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MR.个展：日常派
展期：2021年06月18日- 2021年11月21日
地址：昊美术馆（上海）一楼
主办：昊美术馆
支持：贝浩登画廊
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Mr.有些时候我们拿不定主意，有些东西我们找不到, 2020
布面丙烯和丝网印刷
235 x 285 厘米
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致谢贝浩登画廊
Mr. 陪着我 - 关于这个世界的一个漫长故事, 2020
布面丙烯和丝网印刷
241.2 x 466.6 厘米
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致谢贝浩登画廊
关于艺术家
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MR. Solo Show：Quotidianist
Duration：June 18 - November 21, 2021
Venue：F1, HOW Art Museum (Shanghai)
Organizer: HOW Art Museum
Support：PERROTIN
HOW Art Museum is pleased to announce that the first major museum solo show of the eminent Japanese artist Mr. in China will be on view from June 18, 2021. With the artworks spanning from large-scale sculptures and intricately layered paintings, numerous drawings to video works and spatial installations, the exhibition presents a holistic picture of the artist's creative practice within the realm of Otaku subculture from early years to recent days.
Mr. Sometimes We Cannot Make Up Our Minds, and There
Are Things We Cannot Find, 2020
Acrylic paint and silkscreen print on canvas
235 x 285 cm
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Courtesy Perrotin
Associated with “Superflat” and Japanese Neo-pop movements, Mr. examines the latter-day trends of Otaku culture and, through the means of anime-like imagery, reflects on Japanese popular culture, uneasy social issues and tragic historical events at large. In a nowadays media-saturated world, the immediacy of quotidian reality is shaped by a visual kind of sensibility. Thus the rapid increase in production and consumption of visual imagery since the 1970s in Japan has led to the formation of a new type of perception with maintained attachment to image-based narratives.
Mr. Convenience Store - We Would Always Eat Our Snacks
Here, Even in the Middle of the Night , 2020
Acrylic paint and silkscreen print on canvas 235 x 285 cm
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Courtesy Perrotin
Mr. adeptly and meticulously renders this "hypervisual" living experience of the Japanese mass culture devotee. Minutiae of his daily existence are reified into a "flattened" universe of the artist's creation where reality is intertwined with fiction. Mr. repurposes the visual aesthetics of Otaku culture and its principles of constructing an appealing picture for a consumer to blur out the once seemingly steadfast boundary between the Japanese low-class mass culture and high-form artistic expression under realities of the contemporary art world.
Mr. Stay With Me - A Long Tale of This World, 2020
Acrylic paint and silkscreen print on canvas
241.2 x 466.6 cm
©2020 Mr./Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Courtesy Perrotin
ABOUT ARTIST
Photo: Claire Dorn
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Courtesy Perrotin
Born in 1969 in Cupa, Mr.’s neo-pop aesthetics spans painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Associated with the superflat movement founded by Takashi Murakami, he uses manga and anime to portray his personal fantasies. While he consistently draws his themes and motifs from the otaku subculture or fandom, he is more specifically a self-described otaku artist. His cartoonish visions are essentially inhabited by young characters, who are meant to evoke feelings of moe (a Japanese notion relating to the adoration of fictional figures). In typical kawaii style, he sometimes depicts childlike features (round faces, wide eyes, colorful hair) with innocent undertones. Contrasting with the bright cheerfulness of his all-powerful characters, a wider reflection on solitude, social anxiety, and fear underlies his work.
*图片致谢艺术家和贝浩登画廊
*Courtesy of the artist studio and PERROTIN
文字 Text／Zhanna Khromykh
编辑 Edit／Murphy
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