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194.0×130.3 cm

Oil on canvas

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Natsuyuki Nakanishi（Japan） 1935-2016 Natsuyuki Nakanishi describes a painting as ‘something that cannot complete a world in itself.’ For Nakanishi, a painting is ‘a cross section that rises vertically toward our living space; it has neither dimension nor outline; rather, it is a portion of space that is produced in every point where a brush passes, then, leaves a trace’. That is why paintings of Nakanishi form a series of thin membrane. After the “Anti-art” movement in the latter half of the 1950s, in the period when existing superiority of tableaux was thoroughly destroyed and even the act of painting itself was completely denied, Nakanishi got silently on his path to the unexplored genre of paintings instead of going back to the traditional formats.

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The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo), The National Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan), etc.