![Keiichi Tanaami at Nanzuka](http://s3.amazonaws.com/contemporaryartgroup/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/KT_PA2015_iv01-800x508.jpg)
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Carved specificity gives them the monumental quality of signs, of icons without referent, a sort of totemic obscurity, less culturally reflexive than Pop art, and all the more hallucinatory for it.
See too, “Puddle, pothole, portal” at Sculpture Center ,