Norio Kawamura uses glue and lacquer to create nocturnal images with no figures, breathing fields of picturesque darkness.

His works offer double directed movement. From the picture, a dominative BLACK slides out from the base, acting as Night that overcomes its frame, as Death that breaks its enclosure and splashes out into the locus of the viewer. In the meantime, the onlooker, while being confronted by a patch of Darkness that envelops and drags him into it, gradually slides into a bottomless Nothing. The medium is The Butterfly. A symbolic insect able to glide between Life and Death, Day and Night, Consciousness and Insanity, comes to the surface of black lacquer as if repeatedly gaining its shape and then losing its form again melting back into morbid gloss.

Kawamura's objects, taking a stand in between painting and sculpture, offer interplay of The Shape and The Formless, which permanently substitute each other as if repeating the ultimate circle of Life and Death. These are fluttering images running away from any fixed figuration. They are Nocturnal Screens offering all kind of possible phantasy for projection.