「絵画の反店」 As with the Centre Pompidou, in architecture 'Europe' has already achieved bringing out to the surface, visually, the structures that were originally inside, right? But European painting hasn't gone that far yet. It hasn't completely smashed it. I think it hasn't inverted it. Long ago, in a band called 'Johnny', I seriously thought: what if you made everything the opposite, inverted it, anti-gravity, anti-earth, and turned it all upside down? Same with painting. What does that mean? Normally European painting goes dessin / underdrawing, then paint (mass), layered, but mine is the exact opposite: at the very end, the underdrawing lines are on the surface of the painting. In other words, the skeleton comes out to the very front. I think this time I've got pretty far with it. Painting reversed, earth reversed: come and see whether it just about works as a painting. Acrobatics of figurative painting. I did it deliberately because I'm Japanese. Man Katano