とても好き、尊重している長島有里枝 @ 「I’m So Happy You Are Here」 NAGASHIMA Yurie — someone I deeply admire and respect @ "I’m So Happy You Are Here"

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Tokyo is so fucking hot and humid. In Italy we say now, “il sole picchia” (‘the sun is beating down’).
I’m sitting in my air-conditioned Asagaya studio in front of my canvas, and the early official legacy is breathing down my neck: late art critic NAGOYA Satoru “Mario A, one of the most brilliantly gifted–or perhaps I should say, the single most brilliantly gifted––oil painting artist in Japan”.
The supreme art form (i.e. oil painting / klassische Königsdisziplin) tells me, “Mario, push 500-year-old oil painting practice one more step forward.”