Exhibition of Soichiro Shimizu's very last paintings, for only 7 days, before they will be shipped to Italy, for a museum solo show, from October to December 2016.

The opening reception is supported by 2 great Italian brands: Ferrari Prosecco and Perroni beer.

After his photographic print exhibition last May, named Re-Look, and as a last appearance before his large solo exhibition in an Italian museum (from mid-October to mid-December 2016), Soichiro Shimizu will show for only one week, from 20th to 26th of August 2016, his new works, created in the past weeks. The abstract paintings, acrylic or engraved wood, are all realised following his very specific technique: overlaying, scratching, sanding, burning or metallizing.



==About the artist==

Soichiro Shimizu. Born 1966 in Japan. Live and works in Bangkok.


==Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2016

15th of Oct. -11th of Dec. : Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto, Italy - retrospective.

==Selected past Solo Exhibitions

May 2016: YenART Villa gallery, Bangkok, Thailand - RE-LOOK.

April 2015: RMA Institute, Bangkok, Thailand ( photography )
Jan. 2015: Adler Subhashok Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand: Sculpture (paintings and sculpture)
Oct. 2014: The Art Centre Chula, Bangkok, Thailand: Sculpere (paintings and sculpture)
Sep.2001: Yoshi Gallery, Paris, France
Feb. 1999: Itochu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
April 1996: Caelum Gallery, New York

==Selected Group Shows

May. 2016: Lyla Gallery, Chang Mai, Thailand (upcoming)
Jan. 2016: Art Stage Singapore, presented by YenakART Villa Gallery
Oct. 2015: Art Taipeh, Taiwan, presented by Adler Subashock Gallery
Oct. 2013: Monitor, SpaceBangkok Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Oct. 2013: Oscillation, SpeedyGrandma Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Nov. 2000: New York Independent Art Fair “Frere”, New York, United State Of America
July 1999: Surface Structure, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, United State Of America
Oct. 1996: Dialogue of Consciousness, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, United State Of America


==Selected Publications


Feb. 1999: The Japan Times, Review by Monti di Pietro
March. 1998: The New York Times, Listing for the exhibition at the Elysium Gallery
June 1998: BT (Bijutsu Techo), Review for NY exhibition at the Elysium Gallery
April 1996: The Village Voice, “Choices” for the exhibition at the Caelum Gallery

==Public Collections

Shu Uemura Consmetics Company, Tokyo, Japan
Dowa Kasai Insurance Company, Tokyo, Japanony Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan
Sony Plaza, New York

In numerous private collections worldwide.



 "Soichiro Shimizu's work is unique fusion of action and meditation, nature and artifice, toughness and delicacy.

The artist draws from Japanese, American and European sensibilities to create an original vision that embraces national artistic traditions but also transcends them.

His work is the product of the study and absorption of three different painting traditions.The work resonates with references to European artists like Jean Dubuffet, Americans like Jackson Pollock, along with a complex web of references to the history of Japanese art and crafts.

One senses a deep sensitivity to nature in the work,but t is also undeniable urban, reflecting the toughness of New York.

The surface of the paintings seems like the surface of the earth, built up with layer upon layer of geological history. There is a sense of naturalness as if the paintings were made through natural processes like eruption and erosion. Yet there is also the presence of a skilled and practiced hard, expert in creating the illusion of naturalness. The colours can seem like those of rock formations and other natural phenomena, but also have a sense of artificiality, the product of chemical reactions brewed in a laboratory.

The tension created by the confrontation of opposite aesthetic forces is what gives the work its power. In his subtle way, Shimizu is an expert at stoking this aesthetic terrain by fusing opposing approaches to painting into a single work. He draws the viewer into his richly layered artistic world.

Experiencing his paintings, one is simultaneously in Paris, New York, and Tokyo, indoors and outdoors, in the past and in the present."


- Jeffrey Deitch (on the occasion of Soichiro Shimizu’s solo exhibition at Itochu Gallery Tokyo, in 1999)

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