The current exhibition "Metamorphosis: Give Me Your Wings" at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York presents new works by Japanese artist Mr.. A protegee of Takashi Murakami, Mr. is a renowned Japanese pop artist, often taking recognizable manga characters and turning them totally inappropriate. This multifaceted exhibition will also comprise of new paintings that reflect Mr.’s on-going exploration of otaku, the Japanese “cute” subculture marked by fetishistic obsession with young adolescents, technology, sci-fi literature, manga, anime, and video games. Mr. also has envisioned a complex, chaotic installation that serves as immersive sculpture by forcing viewers to interact with the work and places them in a scenario that is psychologically unsettling.
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