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
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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