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MAKI Gallery is pleased to present Ireland-based artist Brian Harte’s solo exhibition 'Return of the Hawthorn' at Tennoz I, Tokyo. For Harte’s second show with the gallery, 13 new paintings will be on view, in which the artist continues to take apart and reconfigure the domestic setting, elusively capturing the unsteady climate of our times.

At first glance, the objects and shapes in Harte’s canvases appear to either be floating aimlessly or chaotically clumped together. Each element seems to exist entirely on its own, with no discernible relationship to one another. Broad distance is …