Urbancat Elegance : Blu Metropolis Muse, 2008
Hiro Ando   Emerging artists

Sculpture : resin · 100 x 60 x 40 cm 39.4 x 23.6 x 15.7 inch

$22,155 22 155 $US
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Sculpture : numbered and limited to 20 copies

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resin , without pedestal

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100 x 60 x 40 cm 39.4 x 23.6 x 15.7 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Urbancat Elegance: Blue Metropolis Muse by Hiro Ando offers a vibrant and contemporary vision of the urban feline hero within the Neo-Pop sculptural language developed by the artist.
Founder of the Japanese studio Crazynoodles and a leading figure of the Nippon Neo-Pop movement, Ando transforms everyday cultural archetypes into powerful contemporary icons.
This 100 cm sculpture is part of the celebrated series Neko Sculptural Symphony: Claws of Legends, where Urbancat emerges as the feline explorer of modern metropolitan life.
Cast in glossy blue resin, Urbancat immediately attracts attention through its deep chromatic intensity and mirror-like polished surface.
The confident yet relaxed stance of Urbancat evokes the quiet determination required to navigate ever-changing global cities.
The kimono-inspired attire worn by Urbancat merges Japanese heritage with a distinctly contemporary urban attitude.
The vibrant blue tone introduces freshness and energy, suggesting both technological modernity and nocturnal city atmospheres.
Through Ando’s mastery of resin, light flows across Urbancat’s surface, giving the sculpture dynamic visual vitality.
Urbancat becomes a pop symbol celebrating freedom, creativity, and movement within evolving urban landscapes.
Through Urbancat, Ando portrays the modern citizen balancing tradition with constant innovation.
Urbancat’s calm expression contrasts with metropolitan intensity, suggesting inner composure amid urban acceleration.
Collectors encounter in Urbancat a sculpture merging playful mythology with refined contemporary craftsmanship.
The Urbancat figure illustrates Ando’s ability to humanize urban experience through accessible feline symbolism.
The monumental presence of Urbancat reinforces its iconic role within Ando’s sculptural mythology.
The glossy blue finish enhances Urbancat’s pop character while preserving its quiet strength.
Within the series, Urbancat acts as a silent observer navigating cities in perpetual transformation.
Urbancat bridges Japanese cultural references with the universal codes of contemporary pop culture.
Each sculpted curve reveals Ando’s pursuit of balance between elegance, humor, and symbolic strength.
The Urbancat sculpture reflects a generation shaped by global urban networks and hybrid identities.
For collectors, Urbancat Elegance: Blue Metropolis Muse stands as a key work within Hiro Ando’s evolving sculptural universe.
Acquiring Urbancat offers the opportunity to secure a vibrant emblem of contemporary Neo-Pop urban culture.
The sculpture confirms Hiro Ando’s role as a major artist translating modern metropolitan life into universal pop icons.
Urbancat ultimately stands as a joyful guardian of urban imagination within the Neko Sculptural Symphony narrative.

Animal

Pop Art

Cats

Japan

Neo-Pop

Asian Pop

Tokyo

Dark blue

Hiro Ando

Japan  • 1973
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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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