Tetsuro Shimizu

Japan, 1958

Tetsuro Shimizu was born in Tokyo in 1958. In 1987 he moved to Italy and graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milano.

His pictorial research characterizes to express a sensation between psyche and physique, giving main importance to color, which diffuses energy and vibrant musical rhythms  on the shape of the vitalized canvas.

He defines his work as “meditated”, so absolutely distant from the straight off painting. Meditation reflecting in the technique esecution: made of various color drawings, as in the antique way.

“…If gestural painting possesses the characteristic of bringing immediate representation to thought and emotion, Shimizu knowingly breaks the unit of place and action. In this way he creates conceptually elaborate works in which the composite idea is calculated and never entrusted to the casualty of the moment.This is why his work is always iteresting and new. Space is not abandoned to the flow, retaining its fullness and strength.Space is relaunched in a shape which is closed yet suitable for modulation. Tetsuro’s works leap off the wall, paying no restrictions to the wall, desiring only to fill space. If the segments of the works leave empty spaces and cracks, the idea of the painting fills them. Therefore uncertainty become temporary and makes contact with the spectator. The artist creates a hybrid, poetic and undefined space in which the elements of the work suggest a common language.”