About the artwork
Hajime Sorayama's T-Rex edition transposes the prehistoric figure of the dinosaur into a futuristic, sensual aesthetic, typical of the artist. Here, the tyrannosaurus becomes a cybernetic creature, half-machine, half-animal, with perfectly polished metal surfaces. Far from being a mere science-fiction vision, Sorayama transforms this emblematic predator into a pop-technoid icon, both menacing and fascinating. The work plays on nostalgia for the forms of the past (paleontology) and their reinvention through the prism of hypermodernity, in a tension between natural evolution and artificial mutation.
Expert opinion
With T-Rex, Sorayama fuses the bestial power of the prehistoric animal with the sensual coldness of metal, creating a mythical creature of the future, at the crossroads of technological dreams and archaic memory.
About the artist
Hajime Sorayama, born in 1947 in Imabari (Japan), is a Japanese artist known worldwide for his hyperrealistic depictions of robotic and female creatures. He began his career in commercial illustration, before coming to prominence in the 1980s with his "Sexy Robots", a blend of eroticism and futuristic aesthetics. Influenced by science fiction, American culture, industrial design and manga, Sorayama develops a universe where the body is transformed, sublimated and mechanized. His work, a cross between art and design, has influenced fashion, cinema and robotics (notably the AIBO robot for Sony). Today, he is considered a cult figure of visual cyber-eroticism, exhibited internationally and collected by numerous institutions.
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