Exhibitions, Italy, Salerno, 25 February 2023
Press release
Sandro Bongiani Contemporary Art
Memorial Shozo Shimamoto / Having an idea for a hair
Decennial 2013-2023
edited by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi
Presentation by Sandro Bongiani
An International Collective Exhibition shared in two galleries curated by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi with the participation of 137 artists and 357 works for the tenth anniversary dedicated to Shozo Shimamoto 2013-2023
Sandro Bongiani Arte Contemporanea of Salerno is pleased to inaugurate the international collective exhibition entitled: "Memorial Shozo Shimamoto 2013-2023" at the Sandro Bongiani Vrspace gallery and in the Ophen Virtual Art Gallery space. An independent project and exhibition, curated by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi. 10 years after the death of Shozo Shimamoto (January 25, 2013), an international collective exhibition is organized in Italy with the participation of 137 international artists for the first tenth anniversary of his death. A part of the work carried out by the Japanese artist is still little known to the general public, and precisely the research carried out in the 80s and 90s, with his particular actions and the projections of film clips on his shaved head used as a performative space and place to host the opera. Almost a gallery of the body and perhaps "the smallest gallery in the world active in the 80s". To remember him exactly ten years after his death, we thought it useful to send some silhouettes of Shozo Shimamoto's head seen from behind by mail, inviting the artists to make their own personal intervention, as he had done starting in 1987, inviting the artists to create their own personal performative intervention asking to insert what they deemed useful to worthily complete the work. In this sense, the "Head" operations carried out by Ray Johnson, Ben Vautier, G. Achille Cavellini, Mayumi Handa, Allan Kaprow and various other international art protagonists who have intervened over time on the Japanese artist's head by drawing, gluing cards, stickers, different materials and even projecting film fragments perceived as an immaterial flow perfectly in line with the research ideas carried out by the great Japanese artist ready to receive the communicative contribution of other authors.
A project - writes Sandro Bongiani - in which collaboration becomes the priority moment of acting with the ideas that integrate into a unitary and collective whole. Here is the way in which the provisional nature of individual ideas can be linked to become a shared collective work under the sign of a visual construction remodeled in a circular form that arises from the active collaboration of the various authors in order to be able to concretely construct the work. The end result is the creation of a sort of "great collective work" of creativity that the curator S. Bongiani defines as "Swarm Art", in which collective behavior interacts collaboratively, producing functional responses to the communication system, as concretely occurs on the web using the thousands of branched relationships in the Network or as it really happens in the complex interweaving of active relational cells present in the human brain system that integrate with each other by aggregating and then temporarily transforming themselves into an unexpected and very complex whole capable of giving us back the true dimension of the collective relationship ”. After all, we are nothing but small parts of a single relational system that can share the isolation or extend itself as an amplified essence in an infinite and very complex communication of ideas.
137 artists present at this international exhibition dedicated to Shozo Shimamoto:
Alberto Vitacchio - Italia I Albina Dealessi - Italia I Alfonso Lentini - Italia I Andrea Bonanno - Italia I Andrzej Dudek-Durer - Polonia I Angela Caporaso - Italia I Ania Singh - Polonia I Anja Mattila Tolvanen - Finlandia I Anna Bayer - Germania I Anna Boschi - Italia I Anna Maria Matone - Italia I Annalisa Mitrano - Italia I Annegret Heinl - Germania I Antonella Gandini - Italia I Antonio Amato - Italia I Antonio Di Michele - Italia I Antonio Sassu - Italia I Aristide3108 - Francia I Benedetta Iandolo - Italia I Bruno Cassaglia - Italia I Calogero Barba - Italia I Carla Bertola - Italia I Carmela Corsitto - Italia I C. Merhrl Bennett - USA I Cesare e Noah Serafino - Italia I Cecilia Solamito - Italia I Cinzia Farina - Italia I Circulaire 132 - Canada I Claudio Gavina - Italia I Claudio Grandinetti - Italia I Clemente Padin - Uruguay I Coco Gordon - USA I Coco Muchmore - USA I Cosmo Cinisomo - Italia I Crescenzio D'Ambrosio - Italia I Carl T. Chew - USA I Dino Aloi - Italia I Domenico Ferrara Foria - Italia I Dr Klaus Groh - Germania I Dr. Lutz WohIrab - Germania I Ed. Varney - Canada I Edward Michat Dudek - Polonia I Elke Grundmann - Germania I Emilio Morandi - Italia I Emily Joe - Italia I Erika Baggini - Italia I Ernesto Terlizzi - Italia I Ever Arts - Olanda I Felipe Lamadrid - Spagna I Finazzi Mimicha – Skinaz - Italia I Francesco Cornello - Italia I Francisco Escudero - Spagna I Franco Di Pede - Italia I Franco Panella - Italia I Gabi Minedi - Italia I Gianfranco Duro - Italia I Gianni Marussi - Italia I Gianni Romeo - Italia I Giovanni Bonanno - Italia I Giovanni e Renata Stradada - Italia I Giovanni Leto - Italia I Grazyna Borovik - Polonia I Guido Capuano - Italia I Guroga - Venezuela I Guy Bleus - Belgio I GX Jupitter-Larsen - USA I Hans Braumuller - Germania I Henry Grahn Hermunen - Svezia I Hilgart, - USA I Honoria Starbuck - USA I Horst Tress - Germania I Hugo Catolino - Svezia I Ilia Tufano - Italia I Irina Novikova - Bielorussia I Ivo Galassi - Italia I Janus - Germania I Jaume Rocamora - Spagna I Javier Seco - Spagna I John M. Bennett - USA I John Held Jr - USA I Jorg Seifert - Germania I Josè Vandenbroucke - Belgio I Joson Rodges - USA I Jurgen O. Olbrich - Germania I Karl-Frieddrich Hacker - Germania I Keiichi Nakamura - Giappone I Ko De Jonge - Olanda I Lamberto Caravita - Italia I Lancillotto Bellini - Italia I Laura Pintus - Italia I Luc Fierens - Belgio I Lucia Spagnuolo - Italia I Luigi Auriemma - Italia I Luigina Iacuzzi - Italia I M. Josè Silva - Mizè - Portogallo I Manuel Xio Blanco - Spagna I Marcello Diotallevi - Italia I Maria Castillo - Argentina I Marina Salmaso - Danimarca I Marisa Pezzoli - Italia I Mauro Molinari - Italia I Maya Lopez Muro - Italia I Miclelangelo Mayo - USA I Mike Dyar Eart Art - USA I Mirta Caccaro - Italia I Moreno Menarin - Italia I Mr Sjoerd Paridaen - Belgio I Natale Cuciniello - Italia I Ornella Gaibin - Italia I Oronzo Liuzzi - Italia I Paola Toffolon - Italia I Paolo Gubinelli - Italia I Paolo Seghizzi - Italia I Pier Roberto Bassi - Italia I Pina Della Rossa - Italia I Raffaele Boemio - Italia I Reid Wood - USA I Remy Penald, Limoges – Francia I Renuka Kesaramadu - India I Roberto Formigoni - Italia I Rolando Zucchini - Italia I Ruggero Maggi - Italia I Serse Luigetti - Italia I Shmuel, Brattleboro - USA I Sigismund Urban - Germania I Silvia Venuti - Italia I Sjoerd Paridaen - Belgio I Sugar Irmer - Germania I Susan Gold - Canada I T. E. Larsen - Norvegia I Toan Vinh - Canada I Uwe Hofig - Germania I Valdor - Spagna I Victoria Encinas - Spagna I Vittore Baroni - Italia I William Mellott - Taiwan.
Biographies of Shozo Shimamoto
Born in 1928 in Osaka (Japan). He becomes an authoritative exponent of the Gutai Group, formed in 1954 in the Kansai region, together with other well-known figures such as Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayama Akira, Murakami Saburo, Sshiraga Kazuo: the group's activities anticipated the great changes in Western art in the early years sixty. In 1957 the Gutai group conceived the "Gutai Stage Exhibition": for the first time in history a stage was used as an artistic space in which Shimamoto put together the shooting of colors with a cannon specially invented by him and a background sound. Shimamoto also had an interest in audio works that anticipated John Cage's Fluxus works. Some of these works belong to the collection of the Pompidou Center in Paris and to the Ashiya City Museum. In 1993 he was sent to the Venice Biennale with the Gutai Group. In 1994, during the exhibition "Japanese Art after 1945: The Cry Against the Sky" held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the curator Alexandra Monroe discovers that Shimamoto's "holes" are from 1950 (on the Shimamoto- Fontana see the Tate Gallery website): from that moment on, the art world in the United States began to change its attitude towards Shimamoto by inserting his name in various encyclopaedias and art history manuals (appears on p. 1167 of the textbook of the American university "The History of Art", Strokstad, Marilyn; Harry Abrams, N.Y., 1995; in the Encyclopædia Britannica and in the Larousse). In February 1998, the works of 150 artists who have characterized world art of the twentieth century are exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) for three months, then continuing to Vienna, Barcelona and the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art. Shimamoto is among the invited artists. His works were positioned alongside those of Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana; on the opposite side of the room was a work by John Cage. In 1999 he took part in the 48th Venice Biennale with Yoko Ono. In 2003 he took part in the 50th Venice Biennale in the "Brain Academy Apartment" project. Works by Shimamoto can be found, among many others, in the collection of the Tate Gallery, the Center Pompidou, the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, as well as being present in almost all Japanese museums.
Sandro Bongiani Contemporary Art
Memorial Shozo Shimamoto / Having an idea for a hair
Decennial 2013-2023
Edited by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi
- Sandro Bongiani Vrspace
https://www.sandrobongianivrspace.it/
- Space Ophen Virtual Art Gallery
http://www.collezionebongianiartmuseum.it/
From Saturday 25 February to Sunday 30 April 2023
Opening Saturday 25 February 2023 at 18:00
HOURS: every day from 00.00 to 24.00
TELEPHONE FOR INFORMATION: +39 3937380225
E-MAIL INFO: bongianimuseum@gmail.com
Sandro Bongiani Contemporary Art
Memorial Shozo Shimamoto / Having an idea for a hair
Decennial 2013-2023
edited by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi
Presentation by Sandro Bongiani
An International Collective Exhibition shared in two galleries curated by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi with the participation of 137 artists and 357 works for the tenth anniversary dedicated to Shozo Shimamoto 2013-2023
Sandro Bongiani Arte Contemporanea of Salerno is pleased to inaugurate the international collective exhibition entitled: "Memorial Shozo Shimamoto 2013-2023" at the Sandro Bongiani Vrspace gallery and in the Ophen Virtual Art Gallery space. An independent project and exhibition, curated by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi. 10 years after the death of Shozo Shimamoto (January 25, 2013), an international collective exhibition is organized in Italy with the participation of 137 international artists for the first tenth anniversary of his death. A part of the work carried out by the Japanese artist is still little known to the general public, and precisely the research carried out in the 80s and 90s, with his particular actions and the projections of film clips on his shaved head used as a performative space and place to host the opera. Almost a gallery of the body and perhaps "the smallest gallery in the world active in the 80s". To remember him exactly ten years after his death, we thought it useful to send some silhouettes of Shozo Shimamoto's head seen from behind by mail, inviting the artists to make their own personal intervention, as he had done starting in 1987, inviting the artists to create their own personal performative intervention asking to insert what they deemed useful to worthily complete the work. In this sense, the "Head" operations carried out by Ray Johnson, Ben Vautier, G. Achille Cavellini, Mayumi Handa, Allan Kaprow and various other international art protagonists who have intervened over time on the Japanese artist's head by drawing, gluing cards, stickers, different materials and even projecting film fragments perceived as an immaterial flow perfectly in line with the research ideas carried out by the great Japanese artist ready to receive the communicative contribution of other authors.
A project - writes Sandro Bongiani - in which collaboration becomes the priority moment of acting with the ideas that integrate into a unitary and collective whole. Here is the way in which the provisional nature of individual ideas can be linked to become a shared collective work under the sign of a visual construction remodeled in a circular form that arises from the active collaboration of the various authors in order to be able to concretely construct the work. The end result is the creation of a sort of "great collective work" of creativity that the curator S. Bongiani defines as "Swarm Art", in which collective behavior interacts collaboratively, producing functional responses to the communication system, as concretely occurs on the web using the thousands of branched relationships in the Network or as it really happens in the complex interweaving of active relational cells present in the human brain system that integrate with each other by aggregating and then temporarily transforming themselves into an unexpected and very complex whole capable of giving us back the true dimension of the collective relationship ”. After all, we are nothing but small parts of a single relational system that can share the isolation or extend itself as an amplified essence in an infinite and very complex communication of ideas.
137 artists present at this international exhibition dedicated to Shozo Shimamoto:
Alberto Vitacchio - Italia I Albina Dealessi - Italia I Alfonso Lentini - Italia I Andrea Bonanno - Italia I Andrzej Dudek-Durer - Polonia I Angela Caporaso - Italia I Ania Singh - Polonia I Anja Mattila Tolvanen - Finlandia I Anna Bayer - Germania I Anna Boschi - Italia I Anna Maria Matone - Italia I Annalisa Mitrano - Italia I Annegret Heinl - Germania I Antonella Gandini - Italia I Antonio Amato - Italia I Antonio Di Michele - Italia I Antonio Sassu - Italia I Aristide3108 - Francia I Benedetta Iandolo - Italia I Bruno Cassaglia - Italia I Calogero Barba - Italia I Carla Bertola - Italia I Carmela Corsitto - Italia I C. Merhrl Bennett - USA I Cesare e Noah Serafino - Italia I Cecilia Solamito - Italia I Cinzia Farina - Italia I Circulaire 132 - Canada I Claudio Gavina - Italia I Claudio Grandinetti - Italia I Clemente Padin - Uruguay I Coco Gordon - USA I Coco Muchmore - USA I Cosmo Cinisomo - Italia I Crescenzio D'Ambrosio - Italia I Carl T. Chew - USA I Dino Aloi - Italia I Domenico Ferrara Foria - Italia I Dr Klaus Groh - Germania I Dr. Lutz WohIrab - Germania I Ed. Varney - Canada I Edward Michat Dudek - Polonia I Elke Grundmann - Germania I Emilio Morandi - Italia I Emily Joe - Italia I Erika Baggini - Italia I Ernesto Terlizzi - Italia I Ever Arts - Olanda I Felipe Lamadrid - Spagna I Finazzi Mimicha – Skinaz - Italia I Francesco Cornello - Italia I Francisco Escudero - Spagna I Franco Di Pede - Italia I Franco Panella - Italia I Gabi Minedi - Italia I Gianfranco Duro - Italia I Gianni Marussi - Italia I Gianni Romeo - Italia I Giovanni Bonanno - Italia I Giovanni e Renata Stradada - Italia I Giovanni Leto - Italia I Grazyna Borovik - Polonia I Guido Capuano - Italia I Guroga - Venezuela I Guy Bleus - Belgio I GX Jupitter-Larsen - USA I Hans Braumuller - Germania I Henry Grahn Hermunen - Svezia I Hilgart, - USA I Honoria Starbuck - USA I Horst Tress - Germania I Hugo Catolino - Svezia I Ilia Tufano - Italia I Irina Novikova - Bielorussia I Ivo Galassi - Italia I Janus - Germania I Jaume Rocamora - Spagna I Javier Seco - Spagna I John M. Bennett - USA I John Held Jr - USA I Jorg Seifert - Germania I Josè Vandenbroucke - Belgio I Joson Rodges - USA I Jurgen O. Olbrich - Germania I Karl-Frieddrich Hacker - Germania I Keiichi Nakamura - Giappone I Ko De Jonge - Olanda I Lamberto Caravita - Italia I Lancillotto Bellini - Italia I Laura Pintus - Italia I Luc Fierens - Belgio I Lucia Spagnuolo - Italia I Luigi Auriemma - Italia I Luigina Iacuzzi - Italia I M. Josè Silva - Mizè - Portogallo I Manuel Xio Blanco - Spagna I Marcello Diotallevi - Italia I Maria Castillo - Argentina I Marina Salmaso - Danimarca I Marisa Pezzoli - Italia I Mauro Molinari - Italia I Maya Lopez Muro - Italia I Miclelangelo Mayo - USA I Mike Dyar Eart Art - USA I Mirta Caccaro - Italia I Moreno Menarin - Italia I Mr Sjoerd Paridaen - Belgio I Natale Cuciniello - Italia I Ornella Gaibin - Italia I Oronzo Liuzzi - Italia I Paola Toffolon - Italia I Paolo Gubinelli - Italia I Paolo Seghizzi - Italia I Pier Roberto Bassi - Italia I Pina Della Rossa - Italia I Raffaele Boemio - Italia I Reid Wood - USA I Remy Penald, Limoges – Francia I Renuka Kesaramadu - India I Roberto Formigoni - Italia I Rolando Zucchini - Italia I Ruggero Maggi - Italia I Serse Luigetti - Italia I Shmuel, Brattleboro - USA I Sigismund Urban - Germania I Silvia Venuti - Italia I Sjoerd Paridaen - Belgio I Sugar Irmer - Germania I Susan Gold - Canada I T. E. Larsen - Norvegia I Toan Vinh - Canada I Uwe Hofig - Germania I Valdor - Spagna I Victoria Encinas - Spagna I Vittore Baroni - Italia I William Mellott - Taiwan.
Biographies of Shozo Shimamoto
Born in 1928 in Osaka (Japan). He becomes an authoritative exponent of the Gutai Group, formed in 1954 in the Kansai region, together with other well-known figures such as Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayama Akira, Murakami Saburo, Sshiraga Kazuo: the group's activities anticipated the great changes in Western art in the early years sixty. In 1957 the Gutai group conceived the "Gutai Stage Exhibition": for the first time in history a stage was used as an artistic space in which Shimamoto put together the shooting of colors with a cannon specially invented by him and a background sound. Shimamoto also had an interest in audio works that anticipated John Cage's Fluxus works. Some of these works belong to the collection of the Pompidou Center in Paris and to the Ashiya City Museum. In 1993 he was sent to the Venice Biennale with the Gutai Group. In 1994, during the exhibition "Japanese Art after 1945: The Cry Against the Sky" held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the curator Alexandra Monroe discovers that Shimamoto's "holes" are from 1950 (on the Shimamoto- Fontana see the Tate Gallery website): from that moment on, the art world in the United States began to change its attitude towards Shimamoto by inserting his name in various encyclopaedias and art history manuals (appears on p. 1167 of the textbook of the American university "The History of Art", Strokstad, Marilyn; Harry Abrams, N.Y., 1995; in the Encyclopædia Britannica and in the Larousse). In February 1998, the works of 150 artists who have characterized world art of the twentieth century are exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) for three months, then continuing to Vienna, Barcelona and the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art. Shimamoto is among the invited artists. His works were positioned alongside those of Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana; on the opposite side of the room was a work by John Cage. In 1999 he took part in the 48th Venice Biennale with Yoko Ono. In 2003 he took part in the 50th Venice Biennale in the "Brain Academy Apartment" project. Works by Shimamoto can be found, among many others, in the collection of the Tate Gallery, the Center Pompidou, the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, as well as being present in almost all Japanese museums.
Sandro Bongiani Contemporary Art
Memorial Shozo Shimamoto / Having an idea for a hair
Decennial 2013-2023
Edited by Sandro Bongiani and Ruggero Maggi
- Sandro Bongiani Vrspace
https://www.sandrobongianivrspace.it/
- Space Ophen Virtual Art Gallery
http://www.collezionebongianiartmuseum.it/
From Saturday 25 February to Sunday 30 April 2023
Opening Saturday 25 February 2023 at 18:00
HOURS: every day from 00.00 to 24.00
TELEPHONE FOR INFORMATION: +39 3937380225
E-MAIL INFO: bongianimuseum@gmail.com
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