Come visit The Art Of DEVILROBOTS Exhibition opened from 26th November 2022 to 5th February 2023 only! Established in 1997 in Tokyo, DEVILROBOTS is a design team known for their range of characters, art toys and artworks, and for their graphics, audio-visuals, websites, CD jackets, apparel, and more! Their style has a mix of a little evil and robotic fun, resulting in a unique world of cute and dark, with their most famous character, To-Fu Oyako, gaining worldwide recognition and support.
DEVILROBOTS has a large range of collaboration such as Bandai, Coca-Cola, Levis, Medicom Toy, MoMA Design Store, Nike, Nokia, Paul Smith, Kidrobot, and others – all featuring the studio’s major characters including To-Fu Oyako, evirob, BOXY, MIMILA, maffy and KIIRO to name a few.
The exhibition showcases a wide variety of original works like collectible paintings and figurines. All paintings in this exhibition were led and painted by the Art Director of DEVILROBOTS, Mr. Shinichiro Kitai (“Shin”).
THE ART OF DEVILROBOTS exhibition is made up of more than 40 artworks, specially created by DEVILROBOTS to commemorate their incredible 25th anniversary feat. This includes the original hand-drawn sketches flown in directly from Japan to Singapore by Shin, offering the firsthand experience of the studio to visitors from these seldom-seen-before manuscripts.
The precious hand drawn manuscripts are unfortunately not for purchasing. However, the exhibition will showcase another 25 different assortments of hand-painted DEVILROBOTS original artworks by Shin, offering collectors the golden opportunity to own one of them.
These paintings are a form of gratitude to the iconic characters such as the To-Fu Oyako as well as evirob and BOXY. Apart from that, other collectibles include the highly sought-after vintage original To-Fu Oyako 100% Kubrick figure that goes all the way back to 2002.
This new version of Mother and Son To-Fu Kubricks showcasing at the exhibition remains the original ratio of the figures from more than 20 years ago but have smiling expressions to reflect the augmented optimism of this year instead of the usual frown.
At the same time, to commemorate the 25th anniversary exhibition, DEVILROBOTS has specially curated a sole original drawing – “DR 25th Anniversary”.
In addition to the art collection showcase, there are a grand total of 7 MURART digital art prints with 25 editions each. MURART (“Mural + Art”) refers to the next level of art-print production, using specialised paper made from the material of Japanese traditional wall, which allows the eventual art print to look like real art drawn right on the wall.
Amongst the most intriguing prints displayed include the popular spoof series of To-Fu Oyako, as DEVILROBOTS spoofs world-famous paintings such as “The Scream” and “Girl with a Pearl Earring” with cheeky To-Fu Oyako characters.
Together with BLAXK by ActionCity, DEVILROBOTS created a special series of art toys to celebrate this milestone exhibition in Singapore. A very limited number of event-exclusive To-Fu Oyako and evirob 5” sofubi (vinyl) figures casted in a special black-marble colourway – a mirror of BLAXK’s signature gallery setup – will be launched exclusively at the exhibition.
In conjunction with the upcoming Year of the Rabbit, DEVILROBOTS is also releasing their unique ‘Rabbit Kaiju’ character MIMILA in 5” vinyl figures in 2 different colourways, each highly limited in numbers as well.
These evirob 5” vinyl figures each have their unique colourway designed by Shin and then meticulously painted on. The ‘Artist Custom Colours’ evirob figures are limited only to 30 pieces across each colourway. Furthermore, the studio has specifically created 3 unique Merlion To-Fu Oyako 10” vinyl figures, each being one-of-a-kind custom colour designed by the artist.
The exhibition also proudly displays the world’s first Okan To-Fu Oyako 2000% Kubrick standing at 1.4m tall as well as other equally as awesome installation arts. Visitors can also look forward to receiving other event-exclusive premiums including postcards, autographed blank To-Fu Oyako minifigures and many more.
BLAXK inspires meaningful and deep connections between all who share a common love for pop art and collectibles so visit the exhibition at BLAXK by ActionCity (Funan, #01-03) to see them in person. Hurry down now, as all products are while stocks last!
Event Period: 26 November 2022 (Saturday) – 5 February 2023 (Sunday)
Address: BLAXK by ActionCity, #01-03 Funan Mall, 107 North Bridge Road, S(179105)
Opening Hours: 11.00am – 9.30pm daily
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