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Maki Na Kamura, 'Ed XIV', 2023. Oil, tempera on canvas, 55 x 74 3/4 inches 140 x 190 cm © Maki Na Kamura. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
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Maki Na Kamura, 'Ed XIII', 2023. Oil, tempera on canvas 63 x 82 3/4 inches 160 x 210 cm © Maki Na Kamura. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
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Maki Na Kamura, 'Camp VI', 2023. Oil, tempera on canvas 55 x 67 inches 140 x 170 cm © Maki Na Kamura. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
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Maki Na Kamura, 'ED XV', 2023. Oil, tempera on canvas 82 3/4 x 63 inches 210 x 160 cm © Maki Na Kamura. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
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Maki Na Kamura, 'Ed XVII', 2023. Oil, tempera on canvas 61 x 49 1/4 inches 155 x 125 cm © Maki Na Kamura. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
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Maki Na Kamura, 'Ed X', 2023. Oil, tempera on canvas 102 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches 260 x 200 cm © Maki Na Kamura. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
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Maki Na Kamura (b. Osaka) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in Japan. Solo museum exhibitions have been held at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium (2017); Osthaus Museum Hagen in Hagen, Germany (2017); Bilbao Arte – centro de arte contemporáneo in Bilbao, Spain (2015); and Oldenburg...
Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Maki Na Kamura, an exhibition of new paintings by Osaka-born, Berlin-based artist Maki Na Kamura. Given her background, many critics highlight the competing polarities of Japanese and Western influences in her paintings, but the reality is more complex. Japanese art has long informed European painting. Na Kamura elaborates, “Hokusai compensated for his lack of knowledge of perspective with his pictorial inventions. Sesshu built his pictorial space into the painting. Had Cézanne known about this, he would have been spared his labours.” Furthermore, Na Kamura does not categorize. She sees her work as...