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Can we pinpoint the moment when Michael Lau and Eric So turned street culture into tangible, collectible art, just as Takashi Murakami blurred the line between high and low culture—when Art Toys stopped being "just toys" and became a visual language that redefined contemporary art, design, and identity on a global scale?

¿Podemos considerar el momento en que Michael Lau y Eric So transformaron la cultura callejera en arte coleccionable, del mismo modo que Takashi Murakami desdibujó la frontera entre el "arte elevado" y la cultura popular—cuando los Art Toys dejaron de ser "solo juguetes" para convertirse en un lenguaje visual que redefinió el arte contemporáneo, el diseño y la identidad a nivel global?

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Kaikai＆Kiki（BLUE eyes ver.) by Takashi Murakami

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Sergio Pampliega Campo & Cristina A. del Chicca are members co-founders of Art Toy Gama Collective since 2014

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Can we pinpoint the moment when Takashi Murakami flipped the script—when instead of elevating street culture into art, like Michael Lau, Eric So, and Bounty Hunter, he took the high art world and injected it with the energy of mass culture? When his Superflat philosophy crushed the boundaries between museums and mainstream, proving that fine art could be as accessible as a Louis Vuitton bag, as playful as an anime character, and as disruptive as a viral trend?

¿Podemos considerar el momento en que Takashi Murakami le dio la vuelta al juego—cuando, en lugar de elevar la cultura callejera al estatus de arte, como hicieron Michael Lau, Eric So y Bounty Hunter, él tomó el mundo del arte elevado y lo impregnó de la energía de la cultura de masas? Cuando su filosofía Superflat dinamitó las barreras entre los museos y lo mainstream, demostrando que el arte podía ser tan accesible como un bolso de Louis Vuitton, tan juguetón como un personaje de anime y tan disruptivo como una tendencia viral?

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Takashi Murakami photo from INSTAGRAM

By the way…

❌ If you’re happy collecting whatever Instagram tells you to.

❌ If you think “limited edition” means something.

❌ If you don’t give a damn about the real stories behind Art Toys, Fine Art Prints, paintings and sculptures...

DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER HERE

Sergio Pampliega Campo & Cristina A. del Chicca are members co-founders of Art Toy Gama Collective since 2014

www.arttoygama.com

🍀Memory of #HongKong🍀

香港滞在の最後は、大好きな大先輩であり友人のMr. #EricSo のスタジオへ✅久々の再会で、２時間ほど仕事や人生のお話をして頂きました☺️

僕が10代の頃、日本にも届いていた香港デザイナートイのヒーローのような人ですが、今も止まらずトイだけにとどまらず、アートの世界でも作品を作り続けている素敵な漢✅

いつも優しくて大きい存在に良い刺激しかなく、感謝しています...Arigato Eric😸🤝☺️🍀お会い出来なかったIvanaもまたね👋🍀

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Charlotte Raybaud in Conversation with Eric So — Phillips

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— Hong Kong toy artist icon Eric So became well-known in the late 1990s for his series of collectible Bruce Lee figurines that blurred lines between art, design and object. As the value for collectible toys in the art market continues to skyrocket, we paid a visit to one of the key innovators and predictors of this trend…

Image courtesy of Phillips