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    Art Brokerage: Aya Takano Japanese Artist: b. 1976. Aya Takano born December 22, 1976) is a Japanese Superflat artist, manga artist, and science fiction essayist. Murakami was looking to exhibit the work of young artists and to help create an artistic community for like-minded artists that used the Superflat style. The Superflat movement, popularized by Murakami himself, is about emphasizing the two dimensionality of figures, which is influenced by Japanese manga and anime, while dually exposing the fetishes of Japanese consumerism. Through the basic ideas of this movement, he created the Kaikai Kiki Co., a group where five out of the seven members are women. In the 1980s, the look of pre-pubescent girls became the target of consumer culture in Japanese society. This infantilization and objectification of the female was seen most heavily in Japan's otaku culture. Japanese female artists like Takano seek to reinvent the otaku culture through a feminine perspective. Takano in particular is interested in depicting how the future will impact the role of the female heroine in society. Her figures, often androgynous, float through her alternate realities partially clothed or fully nude. Takano denies that she is trying to reveal anything specific about sex, but rather, with the slim bodies, bulbous heads, and large eyes, she is trying to emphasize her figures' temporary suspension from adulthood; the redness on the figures' joints, such as the elbows, knees, and shoulders, is supposed to convey that they are still engaged in the growing process, mentally and physically. Takano's playful and ambiguous visions of the future, especially one which revolves around the feminine, serves as a way for her to create her own mythology, free from the chains of reality. Listings wanted.

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Doki Doki Donpen 2020 Limited Edition Print - Aya Takano

Aya Takano

Doki Doki Donpen 2020

Limited Edition Print: Archival Pigment Print + Silkscreen, Hand Signed, From the edition of 50

Size: 15x19 in  | 38x48 cm
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Arabian Night and End 2005 Limited Edition Print - Aya Takano

Aya Takano

Arabian Night and End 2005

Limited Edition Print: Offset Lithograph, Hand Signed, From the Edition of 300

Size: 20x24 in  | 50x60 cm
Framed Offset Lithograph $1,595
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Drive With a Night Dog Limited Edition Print - Aya Takano

Aya Takano

Drive With a Night Dog

Limited Edition Print: Lithograph, Hand Signed, From the edition of 300

Size: 28x21 in  | 70x52 cm
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Convenience Store 2006 Limited Edition Print - Aya Takano

Aya Takano

Convenience Store 2006

Limited Edition Print: Lithograph, Hand Signed, From the Edition of 300

Size: 20x25 in  | 51x64 cm
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