Dellupi Arte gallery in Milan presents the exhibition Shōzō Shimamoto. Recent Works, a solo show dedicated to the Japanese Master, considered to be among the most audacious and experimental interpreters of post-World War II. §Born in 1954 in the Kansai region of Japan and co-founder of the Gutai Artistic Movement, Shōzō Shimamoto’s research promotes a new language that cuts with the traditional expressive criterions and represents an instinctive liberation of creativity, departing the traditional Japanese pictorial gestures and aiming at unrevealed and original expressive approaches.

The exhibition – which includes about ten works including canvases and sculptures – shows some of the paintings painted with the technique of colour throwing, the Bottle Crash. Shimamoto first used this modus operandi in 1956, in an impressive performance for the Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition when he handcrafted a rudimentary cannon to shoot bags of colour onto a monumental canvas suspended from trees. Shortly after, in the same year, he performed his first real Bottle Crash, forcefully throwing bottles full of different pigments against a boulder placed on the ground in the centre of a large canvas.