E-mail: jr@studio-pots.com		Harlequin Gallery 68 Greenwich High Road, London SE10 8LF, England Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8692 7170
Shiryu Morita 9th to 30th April 2006
To complement Keiko’s ceramics the Harlequin will also be showing examples of work by the avant-garde Sho (large brush) calligrapher, Shiryu Morita. Born in Toyooka (Hyogo prefecture) in 1912, Morita is recognised as having a significant influence on European and American abstraction painting in the 1950s and 60s. His work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as early as 1953 and during the 1960s he made an extended trip to Europe and North America giving lectures and demonstrations. In 1970 he had a one man exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Canada that toured the country and continued to exhibit around the world into the 1990s, especially in Germany and the United States, where he has perhaps better known than in his native Japan. A significant talent, Morita died in 1999. Below are the three framed works on show that all date from 1990.
Titled work No.13 (1990). Dimensions of the paper: 68.5cm by 93.0cm. Frame: 85cm by 110cm	Titled work No.28 (1990). Dimensions of the paper: 66.5cm by 91.5cm. Frame: 85cm by 110cm
Titled work No.30 (1990). Dimensions of the paper: 66.0cm by 91.0cm. Frame: 85cm by 110cm.
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