Painting as Necessity: Sotaro Takanami on Discipline, Solitude, and Transcendence
Renowned for his uncompromising dedication and the meditative intensity of his canvases, Japanese painter Sotaro Takanami has spent decades transforming an inner compulsion into a visual language that bridges the physical and the spiritual. His work moves between abstraction and emotion, restraint and release, revealing a lifelong dialogue between East and West, discipline and instinct. In this conversation, he reflects on painting as both necessity and revelation—an act that deepens with age, c
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