The CRAZY NOODLES Studio was created in Tokyo in 2005 by Saori Nakamishi and Hiro Ando with the goal of organizing and promoting the creative activities of young artists of the new Japanese pop wave.

The founders quickly realized that their plastic language deriving from manga and their catchy and playful aesthetic was spreading beyond the borders of Japan.
Fanu (Paris) and Xiao Mei (Beijing) have been on the team since 2006. The CRAZY NOODLES Studio is made up of about 15 artists, who work between Tokyo and Paris, stopping on the way in Beijing.

Since the very beginning, and to this day, the founders have given their artists total freedom of expression while at the same time encouraging group work methods to ensure the most creative artistic production.

This fertile international “nursery,” a truly artistic company, has carved out new frontiers. While such frontiers may still be a little wild, they are the Studio\’s own, and were not bequeathed by notions of high art.

The new artists at CRAZY NOODLES take popular culture as they know it and integrate it into their works. By doing so, they also elevate this culture in a stance firmly opposed to elite Western ideas of what art should be.

The works from CRAZY NOODLES are presented first of all as echoes of oriental traditions. At the same time, these seductive and disturbing pieces are mostly a reflection of contemporary society, resulting in a bittersweet portrait of the Western world.

The approach of CRAZY NOODLES may in a small way claim allegiance to Andy Warhol whose popular art was an act of redefining, through the silk-screen process, mass culture and the phenomenon of mass consumption.

The creative universe of CRAZY NOODLES is full of Lolita manga, baby-faced and pure. The scenes are obviously suggestive, composed of young girls who are most of the time naked or clad only in underwear, along with characters engaging in subversive acts, reminiscent also of very old traditions.