If you follow contemporary Japanese painting, this is your first chance to hold Haruka Makita's work as a single collection. Her paintings draw on the visual language of ukiyo-e and other traditional Japanese painting, then push it somewhere unmistakably present-day — most strikingly in the eyes of her figures, where the old and the new meet.
Across 192 pages you'll find over 200 works, drawn largely from her personal output, along with new pieces created specifically for this book. A special interview goes into how the paintings come together, giving you a look at the thinking behind the images. Makita holds solo exhibitions each year both in Japan and abroad, and this volume gathers that growing body of work in one place.
The book is bilingual in Japanese and English, so you can read the artist's own words alongside the plates. In her preface, Makita describes assembling the book the way one gathers individual flowers into a bouquet — an invitation to linger over a single painting or simply leaf through the whole.
Published by TWO VIRGINS. Brand new, 2025 publication.
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