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Mr.

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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.

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    Mr. made a film? It's called Nobody Dies? That's intriguing enough for me.

    By Doug S. on 11/14/2008 at 05:12 pm
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