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About The Artist: Naoto Nakagawa

Sono mama, means in Japanese "as it is", "things as they are", and describes Naoto Nakagawa's work precisely. He is a realist of special accomplishment, a realist different from any of his contemporaries. At the heart of his difference is his Japaneseness. We are familiar with the realist tra- dition in the West, with the works of Harnet and Peto and, lately, of Close, Estes, Thibaud and Bravo. What is unfamiliar to us is the depth and breadth...