Maki Na Kamura

German-Japanese artist Maki Na Kamura traces individual reoccurring structures or motifs from classical
masterpieces. She locates similarities and cultural transfers. In Na Kamura’s paintings, we are clandestinely confronted with the works of Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Francois Millet or Puvis de Chavannes. Her paintings breathe century-old pictorial traditions. Yet the artist is not so much interested in the iconographic contents of an image, rather she undertakes a structural analysis that feeds into her discourse on the concept of painting. Her work reconsiders questions of seeing, contemplation and depiction, and of the visual materialisation of outer and inner images.

Born in Osaka, the artist studied art in Aichi and at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Jörg Immendorff. She lives and works in Berlin.

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