Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver: Breath Amorphous

With his round framed glasses and long hair that he wore loosely around his shoulders, Japanese artist Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver embodied the quintessential free spirit of the 1960s. It was around this time that he earned the nickname ‘Gulliver’ – a reference to John Swift’s classic adventure novel – as he frequented jazz clubs to present his experimental films and tested avant garde art pieces. Though the artist has now traded his bohemian hairstyle for cropped salt and pepper hair, Gulliver continues to captivate the art world with his dynamic installations.

In this extensive solo exhibition at the Bankart Kaiko and Bankart Station gallery spaces in Yokohama, Gulliver is presenting roughly 200 artworks from each decade of his fascinating career. This includes his ongoing piece ‘Body Contract’ – a project that the artist began in 1973, where he created contracts for his body to be divided into 80 parts after his death and distributed to 80 different people for them to preserve.