LADY AIKO (Nakagawa, Japan, 1975)._x000D_

LADY AIKO (Nakagawa, Japan, 1975)._x000D_ "Lady butterfly". For Tomenosuke._x000D_ Resin, in black._x000D_ Limited edition of 10 copies._x000D_ With its original box._x000D_ Measurements: 30 cm. height._x000D_ One of Lady Aiko's most popular pieces, a fairy-tale being, sensual and fanciful sculpture, "Lady Butterfly", the butterfly girl, is shown here in its black version. Lady Aiko is a Japanese street artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In the contemporary art world, she is one of the most important street artists of this millennium. "It's hard to be a girl and a graffiti artist", the artist has repeatedly said. However, Aiko manages to rival Banksy, being highly respected for her large-scale work, and for her ability to combine Western art movements and Eastern technical artistic skills. She received a BFA from Tokyo Zokei University in the field of graphic design and filmmaking, before taking her MFA at The New School, New York. While at university in Tokyo, he set up a pirate television station that broadcast his own music videos and short films. In the mid-1990s, he moved to New York, where he apprenticed at the Brooklyn studio of artist Takashi Murakami. He has worked with high-end fashion designer Louis Vuitton. Towards the end of the 1990s Aiko collaborated with artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller The three formed the street art collective FAILE (then A-life) in 1998 Together the artists created "large-format, monochromatic, screen-printed female nudes". In 2013, she attended the international street art festival Nuart in Stavanger, Norway, along with fellow female graffiti artists Martha Cooper and Faith.