20 Japanese Artists Have Reinterpreted Fans’ Favorite Pokémon Characters as Artisanal Objects, Now on View in Los Angeles

Shows & Exhibitions

See Venusaur as well as Pikachu reimagined in ceramic, metalwork, as well as fabrics.

• Richard Whiddington
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After the UNITED STATE Navy required Japan to pass up two-and-a-half centuries of family member seclusion in 1853, porcelain, lacquerware, as well as woodblock prints started swamping westward, introducing the Japonisme visual motion. In the 20th century, one more Japanese export took the international creativity: Pokémon, a hugely inconsonant collection of pocket animals that generated a multibillion-dollar realm.

An exhibit at Japan House Los Angeles combines these …