Richter's Skyscraper by Nico Tracey Kamisaka Sekka and quietly romantic

and quietly romantic

Each coloured band tells a story of a river that never stood still

Japanese Cranes Nr 1 depicts cranes rendered in a style rooted in the long tradition of Japanese bird-and-flower art

The composition owes nothing to representation — pure simultaneity governs the arrangement

and period colour are reproduced with full sharpness and clarity

Richter's Skyscraper by Nico Tracey Kamisaka Sekka and quietly romanticRichter's Skyscraper layers photographic and graphic elements into a collage that interrogates how we picture the vertical city. Nico Tracey fragments architectural imagery facades, grids, structural lines and reassembles them into a composition that is part document, part abstraction. The vertical thrust of the skyscraper form is preserved even as the image fractures it, creating productive tension between legibility and formal disruption. The tonal