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NEW YORK, NY - De Buck Gallery is
pleased to announce the exhibition of
Gutai artist Shozo Shimamoto’s late
works. The exhibition marks
Shimamoto’s solo debut at De Buck
Gallery, and in New York City. The
works will be on view at the gallery
from May 7 to June 20, 2015, with an
opening reception to be held on May
7 from 6-8 PM. A catalogue with an
essay by Dominique Stella will be
published to accompany the exhibition.
As a founder of the Gutai Art
movement alongside his mentor Jiro
Yoshihara, Shozo Shimamoto emerged
as a key figure in the Japanese avant-
garde by the mid-1950s. In the
recovering environment of post-war
Japan, Gutai offered an artistic solution
that channeled the violence of the war
experience into a flourishing creativity.
With Yoshihara’s instructions to make
something unprecedented in art,
Shimamoto and his comrades
embarked upon a new sort of art that
relied heavily on performance and the
bodily involvement of the artist in its
creation.
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