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Kevin Umaña at Romer Young

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Katsumi Nakai (1927–2013) was a Japanese native, born in the town of Hirakata in the province of Osaka. He became an active artist in the local art scene and the leader of an artistic group named Tekkei-Kai. Nakai belongs to a generation of artists that experienced the trauma of the Second World War during their formative years as young adults training in art in Japan. His desire to travel in the aftermath of the War and explore other cultures was a direct result of this. It led him to leave Japan at the age of thirty-seven and to spend the most prolific decades of his career, between 1964 and 1996, in the city of Milan, Italy. There, Nakai abandoned an expressive painterly practice he developed over more than a decade. In its place, he began to forge a new artistic vocabulary, cutting and reassembling wooden panels using hinges to create simple monochrome paintings that open into complex and colourful three-dimensional objects. (Luxembourg + Co.)

More work by Katsumi Nakai: https://katsuminakai.co.uk/

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Roundel with Three Apes Building a Trestle Table German, 1480–1500

"Whether this scene was intended to convey anything beyond its obvious whimsy is uncertain."

Source: The Met

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Fragment of stained glass Crusader, 13th century Excavated in Monfort Castle, Palestine

Source: The Met

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Cloisters Playing Cards South Netherlandish, ca. 1475–80

Source: The Met

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Commentary on the Apocalypse

Source: The Morgan Library & Museum

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Lindau Gospels

Source: Morgan Library & Museum

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The set design for “The Hall of Stars” from Act 1, Scene 6 of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute,' designed by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, ca. 1848

Source: The Public Domain Review

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