Lot
022
Ravenel Spring Auction 2019
Ravenel Spring Auction 2019
Miss Ko² (Project Ko²) 1/5 Art Model Replica
Takashi MURAKAMI
(Japanese, 1962)
This lot is to be sold without its original product box.
ILLUSTRATED:
Takashi Murakami, translated by Chiang Ming-yu, The Art Entrepreneurship Theory, Business Weekly Publications, Taipei, 2007, color illustrated, p. 67 (another version)
+ OVERVIEW
In the 90's, in order to attend an exhibition in America Murakami collaborated with the toy company Kaiyodo and expended quite a bit of energy to create the sexy large-breasted female figure Miss Ko². Miss Ko² was Murakami's first doll figure, exhibiting his originality. At the time figurines were becoming a trend as well. He continued on, following with Hiropon, the child-faced giant figure (huge breasted woman) and the sexy Dragonball inspired My Lonesome Cowboy. These two life-sized naked figurines, entwined in breast milk and seminal fluid, infuriated both the Japanese art world and the otaku who were upset at his wanton selling out of their culture. To be a creative in the Euro-American market the artist’s subjectivity must be a part of the creative process. Murakami compiled and returned to Japanese culture. The most well-known aspects of Japanese art are “cute” and “otaku”. Through Murakami these two identities found audience on the pedestals of Western museums.