Representative work by Shozo Shimamoto
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Artist

Shozo Shimamoto

1928–2013 · Japanese

Shozo Shimamoto co-founded Gutai and developed radical painting methods that included puncturing paper screens and throwing glass bottles filled with pigment onto canvases. In later decades he returned to spectacular bottle-throwing performances and became active in mail art networks.

Painting; performance; mail art

Major Works

  • 1949–50sHoles
  • 1950Work (Holes)
  • 1956Cannon Work
  • 1956Bottle Crash
  • 1957Work
  • 1960Work 1960
  • 1950sAna series
  • 1980sMail Art projects
  • 1990s–2010sBottle Crash performances
  • 1958Untitled

Interviews & Writing

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