At first glance, Yanai’s paintings seems to have nothing special taking place in them, on the face of it, they present the permanent and the absolute. However, further and more discerning observation reveals their essential character: impressions and qualities of mystery and the cryptic whose subject is beyond the superficiality of reality and its matter. By his detailed observation, the artist achieves comprehension of the transient, the elusive, the transforming of reality, thus the viewer is obliged to a more strict, prolonged period of observation andto ‘surrender himself’ in order to try to decipher their secrets.
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