<nettime-ann> Action Painting Street Battle! Ushio Shinohara vs. Ryoga Katsuma on May 24th

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Action Painting Street Battle! 
Ushio Shinohara vs. Ryoga Katsuma
Curated by Ethan Cohen and Shinya Watanabe

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Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
18 Jay Street (Tribeca between Hudson and Greenwich) 
New York, NY 10013  Tel: 212-625-1250  Fax: 212 -274-1518 

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 24th 2006 6-8PM
Performance will be held on Wednesday, May 24th from 7-7:30PM Sharp

Exhibition: Ushio Shinohara, Ryoga Katsuma and Minoru Hirata
Tuesday, May 23rd − Saturday, June 24th 

ACAW Screening Artist: Yang Fudong, Ryoga Katsuma

This exhibition will be held as a part of Asian Contemporary Art Week 
hosted by Asia Society in New York. 

The emerging Japanese action painter Ryoga Katsuma challenges the 
grand-champion of Boxing Painting, Ushio Shinohara. At age 74, Mr. 
Shinohara is the legendary Boxing Painter and was a core member of Neo Dada 
(initially “Neo Dadaism Organizers”), one of the most radical avant-garde 
collectives in postwar Japan.

Shinohara’s motifs are everyday objects, such as junk, motorcycle, mass 
media-related objects and all symbols of modern society. In 1963, Shinohara 
created the series of “Imitation Art,” in which he “imitated” the 
Neo-Dada and Pop Art masterpieces, such as Jasper Johns' Three Flags and 
Robert Rauschenberg's Coca-Cola Plan. 

Shinohara first performed his Boxing Painting in1959, and William Klein was 
among the first photographers to document Boxing Painting performances. 
Since 1969, Shinohara has been based in DUMBO in Brooklyn, New York. 

In “Action Painting Street Battle!” the young challenger Katsuma freely 
draws and paints on canvas It is Katsuma’s special talent to have both a 
child’s free spirit and an accomplished painter’s hand. 

"Action Painting Battle!” will be held on Jay Street in TriBeCa, blocked 
for the occasion, and our guest judges, including Dr. Alexandra Munroe, 
Senior Curator from Guggenheim Museum, and Juan Puntes, the Founding 
Director of White Box, will judge the battle and name the champion of 
Action Painting!

During this performance and exhibition, the recent works by Shinohara and 
Katsuma will be exhibited. 

The exhibition will also include a selection of the Tokyo-based 
photographer Minoru Hirata’s works that documented Ushio Shinohara’s 
early performances. With this segment of the exhibition, Ethan Cohen Fine 
Arts launches the “Art Archeology Project,” a long-term archival project 
which aims to preserve ephemeral art works documented by photography, and 
to foster the understanding of the diverse and rich history of Japanese 
avant-garde performances in the 1960s. The project was conceived and 
proposed by Dr. Reiko Tomii, an independent art historian who specializes 
in post-1945 Japanese art and a co-founder of PoNJA-GenKon, a scholarly 
listserv group.

The event is presented by Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, as a part of Asian 
Contemporary Art Week in May 22nd-26th.

This event is co-sponsored by Art Asia Pacific Magazine.

Also as a part of ACAW video screening, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts will show 
Yang Fu Dong’s Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Chapter 1 and Ryoga 
Katsuma’s, Action Painting Movie No. 2.

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts: 18 Jay Street (Tribeca between Hudson and Greenwich) 
        New York, NY 10013  Tel: 212-625-1250  Fax: 212 -274-1518 
Gallery Hours: Tu-Sa 11 a.m.-6 p.m., info@ecfa.com/www.ecfa.com


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