Year: 2022
Medium: silk screen, mixed media
Dimensions: 53 x 45.5 cm (20 7/8 x 18 in.)
Acquired from MU Gallery, 2022
This work depicts the superhero “Superman” as the motif with a background of an advertisement of exaggerated slogan and seems to have taken from an actual magazine advertisement for the Marvel Comics-related products by the American publisher Simon & Schuster in 1979. The popularity of comics has led to the creation and consumption of a variety of merchandises. Since advertisements stimulate consumption, the use of a hero as the symbol of people and justice as background strongly expresses Niimi’s internalized awareness of problems associated with creativity consumptions.
