Venyx × Man Ray: Small Gold Venus Restored Necklace Lucy Bradnock Murakami increasingly engaged with the

Murakami increasingly engaged with the contemporary art world through the development of his “Superflat” theory and allusions to Japanese art

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Venyx × Man Ray: Small Gold Venus Restored Necklace Lucy Bradnock Murakami increasingly engaged with theDesigned by Eugenie Niarchos for Venyx World, this delicate 18 karat gold pendant necklace was inspired by Man Rays plaster sculpture Vnus restaure (Venus Restored, 1936), a Surrealist icon modeled after the Medici Venus. Man Ray rectified the form of the first century BCE original by twining rope around its body in a fetishistic allusion to the Marquis de Sade, subversively blending a long celebrated symbol of feminine beauty with a paean to erotic