Articles of ‘Shozo Shimamoto’

Casa Morra - Naples, Italy
By Santa Nastro
Casa Morra was born in the volcanic mind of Giuseppe Morra. A former gallerist, collector and Maecenas of many artists, Morra founded a museum dedicated to Hermann Nitsch. In 2016 he started this new project. The space, in a superb 18th-century palace in Naples, Italy, hosts a [...]

Hauser & Wirth - New York
Curated by Midori Nishizawa
By Paul Laster
An avant-garde art movement that developed in postwar Japan, Gutai was founded by Jiro Yoshihara and a group of young artists from Osaka and Kobe in 1954. A self-taught artist and son of a wealthy Osaka merchant, Yoshihara called for a style of “art that [...]