Shozo Shimamoto, Silk Road, Nishinomya, 2006-2007.
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 80 x 117 cm.
© Fondazione Morra.
In this ritualization space and time are present with their basic, three-dimensional and temporary characteristics and these elements combine performance with the finished work. In Shimamoto one can not separate the finished, cut and sometimes framed canvas with the performance that determined that same canvas: space and time are closely related in the driving force that started the work, and that space-time itself is denied when the colors have splattered on the support.