Hiro Ando
The streets of Tokyo and the world of Manga inspire Japanese artist Hiro Ando to create bold, vibrant sculptures. A true polyvalent artist, Ando emerged in 1995 as an illustrator and quickly began executing works in a variety of different media including painting, digital media, sculpture, and video. In 2005 himself and the artist Saori Nakamishi founded the neo-pop artist studio collective “Crazynoodles,
Fueled by endless happenings and rich diversity only a world-class metropolis like Tokyo can offer, Hiro Ando is a Japanese artist celebrated for his unique sculptural work that is not quite like anything else currently on the market. This multidisciplinary artist creates artworks that facilitate a special conjunction of the old and new. Ando mostly does this by relying on the traditional maneki-neko, standing for “lucky cat”within the Japanese mass culture, a motif Hiro constructs in figures of various forms, such as those of samurai, sumo wrestlers or robots.
2012 Permanent Presentation, Happy Art Gallery, Cannes, France
2012 Permanent Exhibition Sculptures, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris France
2012 AnyWhichWay, Galerie BelAirFineArt, Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland
2011 Collective Show, Galerie Alain Daudet, Toulouse, France
2011 CrazyNoodles Show, Galerie Marie Ricco, Calvi, France
2011 Pop Art Show, Galerie des Lices, Saint Tropez, France
2011 Collective Show, Absolute Gallery, Brugge, Belgium
2011 Show CrazyNoodles, Sibman Gallery, Paris, France
2011 ColorFull, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris France
2011 ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR), RAI Edition 28, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
2011 Collective Show, Rize Art Gallery, Naarden, The Netherlands
2010 Nippon Neo Pop in Paris, Galerie Jacob Paulett, Paris, France
2010 CrazyColors, Opera GALLERY, Paris, France
2010 LILLE ART FAIR (ARTFAIR), Palais des Expositions de Lille, Lille, France
2010 ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR), RAI Edition 26, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 Manga in Amsterdam, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 Nippon Collective Show, Galerie Ariel Jakob, Paris, France
2009 From Kyoto to Tokyo, Collective Show, Galerie JacobPaulett, Paris France
2009 The World ... a Cartoon, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Shogun in PokemonLand, Opera GALLERY, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 ARTPARIS (ARTFAIR), GrandPalais, Paris, France
2009 ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR), RAI Edition 25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 SCOPE BASEL(ARTFAIR), KASERN Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2009 SCOPE NEW YORK (ARTFAIR), 355 West 36th Street, New York, USA
2009 Nippon 2009, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris, France
2009 SLICK PARIS (ARTFAIR), le 104, Paris, France
2008 Tokyo Express, Opera Gallery, London, UK
2008 Inside Japan, La 5eme Galerie, Paris, France
2008 Wonderland, Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Opera Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2008 ARTLONDON (ARTFAIR), Royal Hospital, London, UK
2008 NeoPop Made in JAPAN, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris, France
2016 Ando Sculptures Show, Guerrero Fine Art, Barcelona, Sitges, Spain
2016 Permanent Exhibition, TRIBES gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 KAWAI Show, Gallery 32, TelAviv, Israel
2016 Ando Japanese Sculptures Show, Artion Gallery, Greece
2016 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Alain Daudet, Toulouse, France
2016 Pandasan, Opera Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2016 Ando Sculptures Show, Guerrero Gallery, Miami, USA
2016 Permanent Exhibition, TRIBES gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Permanent Presentation, Happy Art Gallery, Cannes, France
2016 Collective Show, LTBart Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
2016 Ando Sculptures Show, ZK Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2016 CrazyNoodles Show, Gallerie Ariel Jakob, Paris, France
2015 Collective Show, Opera Gallery Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2015 PandaSan in Paris, SIBMAN Gallery, Paris, France
2015 Ando Sculptures, Gallery Bel Air Fine Art, Crans Montana, Switzerland
2015 Icons PartII, Gallery 32, TelAviv, Israel
2015 Magnificient Contemporary Art, Opera Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2015 Pandasan, Opera Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2015 Collective Show, LTBart Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
2014 Collective Show, Opera Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2014 Pop Sculptures, Opera Gallery Paris, Paris, France
2014 ColorFull, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris, France
2014 Collective Show, Opera Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2014 Permanent Presentation, Happy Art Gallery, Cannes, France
2014 Icons, Gallery 32, TelAviv, Israel
2014 Collective Show, Galerie Absolute, Saint Paul de Vence, France
2014 Ando Sculptures Show, SIBMAN Gallery, Paris, France
2014 Permanent Exhibition, BelAirFineArt Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland
2014 Opening Show LTBart Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
2014 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Alain Daudet, Toulouse, France
2013 Permanent Exhibition Sculptures, Galerie SIBMAN, Paris France
2013 Nippon Pop Show, SIBMAN Gallery, Paris, France
2013 Opening Collective Show, Gallery32, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Mad Show, Maddog Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
2013 Permanent Presentation, Happy Art Gallery, Cannes, France
2012 Pop Art Show, Luca Fine Art, Verbier, Switzerland
2012 Pop Show, Gallery Bel Air Fine Art, Crans Montana, Switzerland
2012 CrazyNoodles Show, Gallerie Ariel Jakob, Paris, France
From art galeries to MUSEUMS
Hiro Ando is an internationally appreciated pioneer in the japanese neo-pop art.
In the last decade the artist dedicated himself with numerous public installations with his infamous cats in Porto Montenegro, Paris, etc.
With recent viewings in collections as the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, he confirms his notoriety again.
Mixing tradition with contemporary
Fueled by endless happenings and rich diversity only a world-class metropolis like Tokyo can offer.
The multidisciplinary artist shows great skill and intelligence by taking Japan's oldest traditions through his imagination.
He tells us a new story about his country's ancestors. A positive, colourful new way of seeing the world.
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His auction results are out of this world
Represented by some of the top contemporary fine art galleries in the world, in the last three years the artist have sold numerous times over upon its estimated value.
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Hiro Ando's Kabuto is a tribute to Kurosawa and his epic often been cited as amongst his finest achievements.
KABUTO "TARO" TAKATORA
50 x 30 x 30 cm
Mix media stainless steel polished and resin painted and varnished.
Akira Kurosawa 黒澤明, was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Kurosawa calls into question a certain drift from Japanese traditions, and from "Gendai-Geki" (literally "contemporary theater"), melodramas or black films inspired by detective novels, which deal with modern and Western subjects.
KABUTO "SABURO" NAOTORA
58 x 50 x 30 cm
Mix media stainless steel polished and resin painted and varnished.
At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons. Taro, the eldest, will rule, Jiro, his second son, and Saburo will take command of the Second and Third Castles but are expected to obey and support their elder brother. Saburo defies the pledge of obedience and is banished. The central theme of the film is its thematic study of the inheritance of power intergenerationally between a single parent and his three children, but themes of chaos, nihilism, and warfare recur also throughout the film.
KABUTO "JIRO" MASATORA
50 x 30 x 30 cm
Mix media stainless steel polished and resin painted and varnished.
By adding the element of tradition to the popular Japanese culture, Hiro Ando creates an alluring portfolio that is easily paving its own road within the contemporary art world. Likable and easy on the eye, the cat-like sculptures became his signature mark and are uplifting Ando in the current art scene. Posing a new view on the traditional norms, Ando is a modern samurai of the Japanese art.
