Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Mitsuko S - Rapture of Steel : The Predator’s Grace, 2025
Sculpture : stainless steel · 135 x 80 x 80 cm 53.1 x 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$83,754
83 754 $US
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About the artwork
Type
Sculpture : numbered and limited to 8 copies
1 copy available
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist
Invoice from the gallery
Signature
Engraved signature
Technique & Support
stainless steel with steel pedestal
Display
The sculpture can be displayed outdoors
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
135 x 80 x 80 cm 53.1 x 31.5 x 31.5 inch Height x Width x Depth
Dimensions of pedestal:
10 x 80 x 80 cm 3.9 x 31.5 x 31.5 inch
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Description
In Silent Steel Symphony: The Saga of School Girls in Battle, Hiro Ando pushes the Nippon Neo-Pop language into a territory of rare psychological intensity, and Mitsuko S — Rapture of Steel: The Predator’s Grace emerges as one of the most striking embodiments of this evolution.
Founder of the Crazynoodles studio and a leading figure of contemporary Neo-Pop sculpture, Ando abandons here the protective symbolism of his feline guardians to confront the fragility and violence embedded within human narratives.
Inspired by the cult mythology of Battle Royale, Mitsuko S materializes the unsettling figure of the predator—no longer a victim of chaos but its conscious agent.
The sculpture captures a suspended moment of tension: seated yet alert, composed yet dangerous, Mitsuko radiates a calm authority that contrasts with the brutality implied by her weapons.
Her posture suggests domination without theatricality, transforming stillness into a subtle form of threat.
Ando sculpts not action, but psychological presence, allowing silence to become the true narrative engine of the work.
The polished stainless steel surface reinforces this reading, acting as both armor and mirror, reflecting the surrounding space and implicating the viewer in the scene.
Cold, flawless and impenetrable, the metal becomes an extension of Mitsuko’s psyche—controlled, sharp, and emotionally inaccessible.
Within the broader symphony of characters who struggle to survive, Mitsuko introduces a decisive rupture: survival transformed into power.
She embodies the moment when innocence is no longer lost but deliberately abandoned.
This tension between elegance and cruelty gives the sculpture a hypnotic presence, oscillating between beauty and discomfort.
Ando thus elevates a pop-culture figure into a contemporary tragic icon, merging cinematic memory with monumental sculptural language.
The circular base reinforces the sense of isolation, turning the figure into a silent stage where psychological drama unfolds.
Light gliding across the steel surface continuously transforms the sculpture, ensuring a living dialogue with its environment.
For collectors, this work stands as one of the most intellectually and emotionally charged pieces within Ando’s recent production.
Its presence does not decorate a space; it defines it.
Owning Rapture of Steel: The Predator’s Grace means embracing an artwork that challenges, unsettles, and fascinates in equal measure.
This sculpture represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a pivotal piece in Hiro Ando’s evolving narrative, where Neo-Pop aesthetics meet existential reflection.
Through Mitsuko S, Ando demonstrates that contemporary sculpture can still confront the viewer with uncomfortable truths while retaining undeniable formal beauty.
More than a figure, Mitsuko becomes a mirror held to human nature itself—where grace and violence coexist in chilling harmony.
Presentation
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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