SHUYA 5 : ETHEREAL TEMPTATIONS AND SCULPTED DESIRES, 2015
Aya Toshikawa  

Sculpture : marble · 130 x 55 x 55 cm 51.2 x 21.7 x 21.7 inch

€45,000 45 000 €
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Type

Sculpture : numbered and limited to 8 copies

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Condition

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Technique & Support

marble with marble pedestal

Display

The sculpture can be displayed outdoors

Dimensions ( cminch )

130 x 55 x 55 cm 51.2 x 21.7 x 21.7 inch Height x Width x Depth

Dimensions of pedestal:

10 x 55 x 55 cm 3.9 x 21.7 x 21.7 inch

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Shuya 5: Ethereal Temptations and Sculpted Desires is a white marble sculpture by Japanese Neo-Pop artist Aya Toshikawa, created as part of her sculptural series “Sensual Marble Elegance : Quintet of Alluring Dolls”
Within this quintet, Shuya 5 introduces a more introspective and withheld presence, shifting the focus from outward display to inner tension.
The manga-inspired figure is rendered in a compact, slightly twisted stance, suggesting containment rather than openness.
Unlike classical contrapposto, the posture here appears inwardly directed, as if the body folds gently into itself.
This subtle torsion generates a quiet sense of desire held in suspension.
The white marble surface amplifies this restraint, transforming softness into permanence and emotion into form.
Shuya’s gesture avoids theatricality, favoring nuance and sculptural economy.
The absence of facial expression directs attention toward the body as a site of silent articulation.
Sensuality emerges through compression, through what is suggested rather than revealed.
In this work, Toshikawa explores desire as an internal force, sculpted but never released.
The figure appears timeless, detached from narrative or identity, functioning as an abstracted feminine archetype.
Within Sensual Marble Elegance ,  Shuya 5 occupies a position of tension and introspection, contrasting with more balanced or expressive sculptures in the series.
The transformation of manga-derived imagery into marble underscores the artist’s dialogue between contemporary pop culture and classical sculptural language.
The work questions how intimacy and emotion survive when translated into a medium associated with monumentality and permanence.
As a major member of the Japanese art collective CrazyNoodles, founded by Nippon Neo-Pop icon Hiro Ando, Aya Toshikawa situates this sculpture within a broader Neo-Pop reflection on form, desire, and endurance.
Through its restrained posture, refined carving, and psychological subtlety, Shuya 5: Ethereal Temptations and Sculpted Desires stands as a highly collectible work.
It is particularly suited for collectors of contemporary Japanese art, Neo-Pop, and sculpture engaging with themes of interiority, tension, and sculpted emotion.

Nude

Pop Art

Erotic

Japan

Mangas

Neo-Pop

Asian Pop

White

Aya Toshikawa

Japan  • 1979

Presentation

Aya Toshikawa (Lady Kawai) was born in 1979 in Kobe, Japan. After graduating, she began working as an animator and found a job in the industry of toys and games. In 1999 she produced poster, package, and skate board design. She typically paints from photographs, representing beautiful female Manga characters. Aya Toshikawa's artistic language is very much that of hand drawing, so that all the works produced for the Manga magazines maintain their feelings and expressions, even though painted on canvas. Toshikawa refreshing approach to the "fine art" was successfully received when she made his adaptation to oil paintings . Her creative universe is full of Lolita Manga, baby-faced and pure. The scenes are obviously suggestive, composed of young girls who are most of the time naked or clad only in underwear, along with characters engaging in subversive acts. Apart from being a brillant animator Aya Toshikawa has succeeded in converting her talent the world of fine art and has herself an international name as a talented and diverse artist.

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