Commanding Warriorcat : Red Eternal Vigil, 2011
Hiro Ando

Sculpture : resin

100 x 150 x 70 cm 39.4 x 59.1 x 27.6 inch

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Dimensions cm • inch

100 x 150 x 70 cm 39.4 x 59.1 x 27.6 inch Height x Width x Depth

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The sculpture cannot be displayed outdoors


Tags

Pop Art

Cats

Japan

Neo-Pop

Asian Pop

Tokyo

Red

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Artwork location: France

Commanding Warriorcat: Red Eternal Vigil by Hiro Ando emerges as one of the most powerful figures within the series Neko Sculptural Symphony: Claws of Legends, where feline warriors become contemporary mythologies.
Founder of the Crazynoodles studio and a central figure of the Japanese Neo Pop movement, Hiro Ando reinterprets heroic symbolism through playful yet monumental sculptural forms.
This impressive 100 cm sculpture in scarlet red resin commands immediate attention through its intense chromatic energy and compact heroic posture.
Warriorcat stands as a timeless guardian, merging manga aesthetics, pop culture language, and echoes of traditional samurai armor.
The dual shields evoke protection and resilience while maintaining the visual humor characteristic of Ando’s universe.
The brilliant red finish amplifies the sculpture’s dramatic presence, suggesting strength, vitality, and unwavering vigilance.
The smooth lacquered surface reflects light dynamically, giving the sculpture a vivid, animated quality.
Despite its stylized proportions, the figure conveys determination and unshakeable confidence.
This version of Warriorcat represents the culmination of the narrative developed throughout the entire series.
Each character in Claws of Legends embodies a facet of contemporary identity, from tradition to futurism and urban culture.
Here, Warriorcat synthesizes these influences into a universal protector figure adapted to modern visual culture.
The scarlet tone intensifies the emotional charge, transforming the guardian into a vibrant pop monument.
The sculpture captures the dialogue between innocence and heroism central to Ando’s creative language.
Light plays across the rounded surfaces, enhancing the sense of volume and movement within a seemingly static form.
The work embodies Ando’s talent for turning minimal sculptural lines into emotionally engaging characters.
Warriorcat stands both as a mythical protector and as an icon shaped by global pop imagination.
The piece bridges Japanese storytelling traditions with contemporary international art language.
Collectors encounter here a sculpture combining humor, symbolism, and powerful visual identity.
Commanding Warriorcat confirms Hiro Ando’s mastery in crafting figures that resonate across cultures and generations.
This monumental feline guardian offers a striking acquisition opportunity for collectors seeking an emblematic Neo Pop sculpture.
Ultimately, Red Eternal Vigil celebrates courage, resilience, and the enduring fascination of heroic archetypes reimagined through pop art vocabulary.

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galerie jacob paulett • France

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Hiro Ando was born in 1973 on the island of Shikoku in Japan. Hiro Ando started his career as an illustrator in 1995. In 2005 he founded with Saori Nakamishi an artist studio in Tokyo to manage the creation and promotion of other young neo-pop artists who express their own popular culture in their creations. Today the studio "Crazynoodles" has ten artists.

Hiro Ando is a versatile artist. He works in oil on canvas, digital media or video. His technique consists of making several sketches before painting on canvas. The painting shapes itself and emerges in the streets of Tokyo at night, and combines lots of colors and graphics. Hiro paints dark cityscapes and goldfish all over the canvas.

The marriage of the two subjects makes the whole of the painting dynamic and violent, with a strange feeling of eternity given by the goldfish which recall old Japanese paintings and watercolors. The sculpture is a recent addition to the media used by Ando, who started working on a series of orange, green sculptures ... inspired by Japanese popular culture. Thus the cat, which is a lucky charm in Japan, like the Maneki-Neko, takes different forms such as the samurai or the sumo wrestler.

The artist translates this theme into a modern style. The shiny and smooth materials, the vivid colors, the brutal but rounded shapes of Hiro Ando's sculptures take us to the world of manga in which the artist's generation grew up. Hiro Ando's art is the meeting between the Meiji era and Manga, he is Shogun in the world of Pokemon, he is traditional Japan seen through the eyes of young people: he certainly belongs to Japanese neo pop art.

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