All About Holes by Shozo Shimamoto

Title of Artwork: “Holes”

Artwork by Shozo Shimamoto

Year Created 1953

Summary of Holes

Shozo Shimamoto wrote a letter to Tate on July 16, 2002, in which he discussed how he came up with the idea for Holes, 1953, while “playing around with a hole punch” in his workshop in Nishinomiya City, Japan.

At the time, the artist was producing a number of pieces all titled similarly (see, for instance, Holes, 1954, Tate T07897).

For this, we used a hole punch to create perforations in foil candy wrappers, which we then adhered to a piece of plywood that had been painted black. Finally, we rubbed a thin layer of black ink over the entire thing.

Information Citations:

En.wikipedia.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/.