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I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – full view of a hillside village in pink, green and purple above a pale lake with a small sailboat
I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – full view of a hillside village in pink, green and purple above a pale lake with a small sailboat
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Takuma Tanaka I remember my home town in situ at The Wall Art Gallery
Takuma Tanaka I remember my home town in situ at The Wall Art Gallery
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I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – in-situ in a white room with arched windows, a wood-beamed ceiling and a mustard lounge chair
I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – in-situ in a white room with arched windows, a wood-beamed ceiling and a mustard lounge chair
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I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – detail of a black sailboat with figures on red water
I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – detail of a black sailboat with figures on red water
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I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – detail of swirling white and lilac impasto
I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – detail of swirling white and lilac impasto
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I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – detail of pink and mauve brushwork
I remember my home town by Takuma Tanaka – detail of pink and mauve brushwork
Takuma Tanaka Japanese, b. 1977
I remember my home town, 2022
Oil on canvas
64 x 64 in
162.6 x 162.6 cm
162.6 x 162.6 cm
Further images
Tanaka reimagines his Japanese hometown in a Chinese freehand (xieyi) manner: a hill of color, a waterfall, a stand of trees, a tiny sailboat on pink-washed water. Not a map....
Tanaka reimagines his Japanese hometown in a Chinese freehand (xieyi) manner: a hill of color, a waterfall, a stand of trees, a tiny sailboat on pink-washed water. Not a map. A memory. Fluid brush, dreamlike atmosphere — the emotional weather of the place rather than the street names.
This is the canvas people stand in front of and go quiet. It is for anyone who has a town they cannot quite photograph anymore. Square, generous, no text, no skulls. A landscape you live with, not a slogan you read once.
This is the canvas people stand in front of and go quiet. It is for anyone who has a town they cannot quite photograph anymore. Square, generous, no text, no skulls. A landscape you live with, not a slogan you read once.
Exhibitions
HOLOGRAM the whole story, Miami, The Wall art gallery, 2022Don't Think, Feel, Miami solo show The Wall art gallery 2026
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