Shozo Shimamoto (1928-2013)
Shozo Shimamoto (Japan) died on January 23th 2013. In this group there is room to share memories and Visuals to honor this wonderful man.
Shozo Shimamoto (Japan) died on January 23th 2013. In this group there is room to share memories and Visuals to honor this wonderful man.
Ruud Janssen
Jan 27, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 27, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 27, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Shozo Shimamoto
Shozo Shimamoto, born in Osaka in 1928, is a Japanese artist. He was an early member of the avant garde Gutai group founded in the 1950s, and his works are in museum collections such as those of the Tate Gallery and the Tate Modern (in both London and Liverpool) and the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe, Japan. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith [1] has noted him as one of the most daring and independent experimentalists of the postwar international art scene in the 1950s. Internationally today he is especially noted for his work in the "mail art" genre, of which he was a pioneer.
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Shozo Shimamoto: Official site
Jan 27, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Chairman at Takarazuka University of Art and Design
President of Able Art Japan (Japanese Association for Disabled Artists)
President and founder of AU (Art Unidentified), a group of over 200 Japanese artists who create works without any limitations or constraint (Unidentified Art)
Jan 27, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 28, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 28, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 28, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 28, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 28, 2013
TIZIANA BARACCHI
Shozo and Giancarlo Da Lio, Biennale di Venezia 1993.
Jan 28, 2013
TIZIANA BARACCHI
Shozo and Tiziana Baracchi, Lido di Venezia 2007.
Jan 28, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 29, 2013
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Imagine:
Jan 29, 2013
Alicia Starr
“Color without matter does not exist.
The matter beauty has to survive also the paintbrush straining.
Only through cracks, erosions or unexpected colors changes,
it is possibile to discover coloring substances inner beauty.”
Jan 29, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 29, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 29, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 29, 2013
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Jan 30, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Jan 30, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Feb 1, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Feb 1, 2013
MONICAREX
Feb 1, 2013
Carmela Rizzuto
GUTAI EXHIBITION
http://www.sfai.edu/event/gutai-historical-survey-and-contemporary-...
Curated by John Held, Jr. and Andrew McClintock
Opening on February 8, 2013!
san francisco art institute | 800 chestnut street | san francisco, ca 94133 | 415.771.7020 | 800.345.sfai
The San Francisco Art Institute presents the first West Coast survey exhibition of Gutai (1954-1972), a significant avant-garde artist collective in postwar Japan that was founded by Jiro Yoshihara under a primary directive: “Do something no one’s ever done before.” Paintings by Shozo Shimamoto are included, plus numerous other events are to be offered.
The exhibition also presents an impressive collection of Mail Art elicited in response to the movement by over 200 contemporary artists from thirty countries.
Feb 7, 2013
Carmela Rizzuto
Visited the Gutai Historical Survey and Contemporary Response exhibit at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco CA. It was a wonderful overview of the art work of the Gutai group, complete with video of early performance and action art, a mud 'painting', etc. On the second floor the contributions of over 300 mail artists from around the world were displayed. These were in response to a mail art call asking for art created in the spirit of Gutai. A number of IUOMA members were represented.
Feb 16, 2013
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Beautiful catalog/documentation from the Gutai Exhibit arrived in Greece:
Mail art display:
May 13, 2013
Ruud Janssen
Oct 13, 2013
Ruud Janssen
a second Shozo groups was created....
Mar 10, 2014
Ruud Janssen
Jan 8, 2015
Ruud Janssen
Jan 8, 2015
Ruud Janssen
Mar 14, 2016
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Once upon a time, almost 10 years ago, Shozo Shimamoto sent his "shaven head" for add/pass/alter that developed into an "IMAGINE PEACE" project with Moreno Menarin in Italy sending out copies and painted A4 pages, too:
Now in homage to Shozo, Moreno continues to send.
I have just received about 16 " Shozo heads" in three packets that Moreno has sent me...and they are already added, altered, whew,
and in the mail to many in the Mail Art Network...watch for 'em :-)
Apr 26, 2019
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Some of the Shozo shaven-head Add/Pass pages
from Moreno Menarin in Italy:
see the blogs:
IMAGINE PEACE blog2: Add/Pass with back sketches
IMAGINE PEACE and Shozo heads from Moreno in Italy
Apr 26, 2019
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
...on the back of Shozo head Add/Pass
Apr 26, 2019
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
from Moreno in Italy, what a collection he sends!
Sep 4, 2019
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Sep 4, 2019
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Sep 4, 2019
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Latest SHOZO from Moreno Menarin:
Jan 7, 2020
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
IMAGINE PEACE and SHOZO with Greek artist:
Yiannis Kounellis
Jan 7, 2020