Maki Na Kamurao lala, von was für glänzenden liebhabereien ich träumte!

Maki Na Kamura is an artist with Japanese roots living in Germany; in 2012 she received the „Prix Marcel Broodthaers – en peinture“ and in 2013 the Falkenrot Preis of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. She borrows her painting from traditional Western painting, naming Giorgione or Millet as examples. Christoph Tannert writes that her „pictures are a commitment to the unfinished. That always includes the triumph of the romantic will, together with the flight into labyrinthine structures and dead ends. The appeal of this painting owes much, not least, to the use of particular painting media and to work following very idiosyncratic methods, which make the painting appear undogmatic in its conception, fluid, airy and suffused with light. Maki Na Kamura merely hints at things – and achieves her effect precisely in this way. Thus her pictures become gentle variations on the picture as a ferment stimulating the world and as an imprint of it.“ The artist paraphrases in this connection, freely after Mishima, the element of time in Japanese gardens: where one expects a dark memory, a cheerful prospect suddenly appears, and one believes one has already stepped into the future.

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