As a part of it’s milestone twentieth Anniversary, ToyQube curated and produced Go As Astro Boy, the primary ever official Astro Boy artwork mission in collaboration with Tezuka Productions. The expansive exhibition opened on July seventeenth, 2024 and runs via November nineteenth 2024 on the K11 Artwork Area in Guangzhou, China. Go As Astro Boy marks the evolution of ToyQube’s collaboration with Osamu Tezuka’s iconic manga character which began with an thrilling line of Astro Boy artwork toys launched over the previous a number of years and now contains massive bodily installations and thought-provoking artwork exhibitions. Because the reveals nears its shut in China, right here’s an up-close have a look at the featured unique sculptures and archival work.
The primary-of-its-kind Astro Boy artwork exhibition options eleven large-format unique sculptures from Alan Chan, Kebeyo Chen, Chris Brown, Feng Zhixuan, KEITHING (ToyQube), Li Hanwei, Yoyo Lee, Micah Johnson, Shang Liang, Eric So and Xu Zhen. The gifted mixture of artists, designers and superstars from different backgrounds have created their very own visions of Astro Boy in fascinating three-dimensional type. The unique sculptures span a variety of kinds and feelings. Right here we spotlight some items and their underlying themes and inspirations.
A theme of exploration and journey flows via most of the items together with Xu Zhen’s Expertise-Astro Boy that includes his signature define aesthetic, the Astro Boy x Auracles ‘Nami’ version by the Auracles duo of singer Chris Brown and John Dean impressed by topographic maps, designer toy pioneer Eric So’s Lengthen, Broaden and Surprising sculpture that includes an attention grabbing extruded tackle the robotic hero and Micah Johnson’s Astro Boy x Aku recasting the mighty atom as an area explorer carrying Aku’s overside astronaut helmet. Past the hero facet, some items spotlight the character’s playful, whimsical nature together with Yoyo Lee’s Wealthy Astro Boy and Kebeyo Chan’s Rising Uran 4131. Lastly, a number of of the items are drawn from Chinese language tradition together with Alan Chan’s The 4 Happiness Astroboys which is a kinetic black + chrome piece impressed by the basic Chinese language paintings, the 4 Happiness Boys,that includes two intertwined boys giving the phantasm of 4 blissful kids. Likewise, KEITHING’s Astro Boy Delusion Warrior Version is impressed by the world-renown Terracotta Warriors unearthed in Xi’an.
Past the unique sculptures, Go As Astro Boy gives a uncommon journey into the Tezuka Productions vault to discover an archive of classic Astro Boy drawings and work which have hardly ever been seen by the general public. This room throughout the exhibition celebrates the character’s early beginnings and growth right into a popular culture icon.
ToyQube has plans to create smaller, collectible variations of the Go As Astroboy items. The primary such launch is the 1000% Astro Boy Delusion Warrior vinyl artwork toy from KEITHING (28.5″, $850). Subsequent up is the Astro Boy x Auracles ‘Nami’ polystone determine (12″, $325) which might be launched at ToyQube’s DesignerCon 2024 sales space (#903).
Go As Astro Boy Artwork Undertaking
ToyQube x Astro Boy
K11 Artwork Area
Guangzhou, China
