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A Pandasan's in Red and Onyx Radiance : Dazzling Opulence, 2011
Hiro Ando   Emerging artists

Sculpture : resin · 100 x 90 x 90 cm 39.4 x 35.4 x 35.4 inch

€32,000 32 000 €
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Sculpture : numbered and limited to 8 copies

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Artwork sold in perfect condition

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Signature

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Technique & Support

resin , without pedestal

Dimensions ( cm • inch )

100 x 90 x 90 cm 39.4 x 35.4 x 35.4 inch Height x Width x Depth

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In A Pandasan’s in Red and Onyx Radiance: Dazzling Opulence, Hiro Ando elevates his emblematic Pandasan into a monumental presence at the heart of the series Celestial Guardians: Shimmering Crystal Chronicles.
Standing 100 cm tall, the sculpture merges playful familiarity with contemporary sculptural power.
Crafted in resin, the work is entirely covered with meticulously hand-applied red crystals that capture and refract light from every angle.
Areas in black crystals recall the natural markings of the panda, preserving an emotional connection to the original animal.
The scarlet surface evokes vitality, passion, and emotional intensity, strengthening the sculpture’s visual impact.
The contrast between blazing red and onyx accents creates a strong chromatic tension across the figure.
Each crystal acts like a luminous fragment, echoing the pixelated surfaces of our image-saturated digital culture.
Ando transforms a soft and popular figure into a contemporary guardian that is both reassuring and powerful.
The spectacular brilliance questions today’s fascination with luxury and appearance.
Pandasan becomes both an ironic and protective icon within a visually unstable world.
The creation unites Japanese pop culture with an international Neo Pop aesthetic.
Its monumentality intensifies emotional impact within exhibition spaces or private collections.
Light gliding across the crystals gives the impression that the sculpture breathes and evolves with its environment.
Ando reveals a psychology oscillating between childhood nostalgia and a critical view of modern society.
The immediate sparkle attracts the viewer before inviting deeper contemplation.
Every detail reflects meticulous craftsmanship combined with reflection on the role of imagery today.
The artist deliberately blurs the boundary between accessible pop culture and high-end collectible sculpture.
Pandasan thus becomes a universal totem shaped for contemporary imagination.
The sculpture embodies the encounter between playful emotion and visual sophistication.
Its shimmering presence redefines the panda as both protective and spectacular icon.
The work perfectly illustrates Ando’s ability to transform joyful figures into culturally powerful sculptures.
A Pandasan’s in Red and Onyx Radiance stands as a major expression of current Nippon Neo Pop energy.
Ultimately, the sculpture celebrates light, emotion, and contemporary imagination while questioning our relationship to brilliance and visual value.
For collectors, acquiring such a work represents a remarkable opportunity to own a monumental Neo Pop sculpture by one of Japan’s leading contemporary artists, combining strong visual impact with lasting artistic and patrimonial value within a forward-looking collection.

Animal

Pop Art

Japan

Neo-Pop

Panda

Asian Pop

Tokyo

Black

Red

Hiro Ando

Japan  • 1973
356 followers

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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