Acrylic master Minoru Nomata paints fantastical, impossible buildings and structures, often towering over the landscape; he sets them in typological series that are somehow reminiscent of the photographs of Bernd and Hiller Becher. Nomatas enthralling creations towers that are half steel and half jungle, balloon-powered factories are rendered in sober, autumnal shades that lend them majesty, and recall one of Nomatas own inspirations German Romanticism, and Caspar David Friedrich. Four essays explore his achievements.





