Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie St
212.254.0054
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Mr., Gotcha-Gotcha, Courtesy Lehmann Maupin
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Opens Thursday Nov 6, 2008 (6–8pm)
Nov 6, 2008 – Feb 21, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths, standing stark naked in Takashi Murakami's Little Boy exhibition at the Japan Society. His examination of the Japanese Otaku subculture continued two years later at Lehmann Maupin: seemingly idyllic family portraits of beaming youths surrounded a room-sized sculpture of a girl's bedroom, all crammed inside a massive doll's head. Mr. returns for his second solo show — now situated in the gallery's new LES space — and makes his film debut with Nobody Dies. Accompanied by the large-scale painting Gotcha-Gotcha, the film follows streetwise Japanese girls transformed into warriors whose ferocity is matched only by their effusive bubbliness.
