AstroBoy

Description

Aiiroh & Namisen offers us here their version of Astroboy (the little robot) by Osamu Tezuka published between 1952 and 1968 then broadcast in France from 1986. By taking the silhouette of Astro in pencil and integrating psychedelic colors , the 2 artists tick all the boxes of Pop Art.

This work uses several Street Art techniques by combining lithography on 300g/m² Fine Art paper combined with acrylic paint applied by hand by the artist.

In this work, Aiiroh works in collaboration with the young Japanese artist Namisen. Originally from the suburbs of Osaka, she is a master Shihan, the highest rank in the Japanese calligraphic art, Shodou.

After a stint at the Nagoya School of Fine Arts, and influenced by the work of Ernst Kolb, she refined a unique and characteristic style through which she represents these subjects using fine and multiple lines, until obtain disconcerting portraits of light and shadow.

His favorite subjects are animated characters, manga and films from his childhood, as well as American icons.