Maki Na Kamura: o lala, von was für glänzenden liebhabereien ich träumte!

And so I listened from the kerb

Maki Na Kamura is an artist with Japanese roots who lives in Germany. In 2012 she received the "Prix Marcel Broodthaers - en peinture" and in 2013 the Falkenrot Prize from Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. She borrows her painting from traditional Western painting and cites Giorgione and Millet as examples. Christoph Tannert writes that her "paintings are a commitment to the unfinished. This always includes the triumph of the romantic will together with the escape into labyrinthine structures and hopelessness. The charm of this painting is due not least to the use of special painting media and the work according to very individual methods, which make the painting appear undogmatic in its conception, fluid, airy and permeated with light. Maki Na Kamura only hints at things - and achieves an effect precisely by doing so. Her paintings thus become gentle variations on the image as a world-stimulating ferment and world imprint." The artist paraphrases Mishima about the element of time in Japanese gardens: where one expects a dark memory, a cheerful view suddenly appears, and one thinks one has already entered the future.

Exhibition:
Oldenburger Kunstverein, 12/9 - 2/11/2014