#WorkOfTheWeek is 'Holes' by Japanese artist Shozo Shimamoto. The painting is made from layers of pasted newspapers which have been pierced to create holes in its surface. Viewed from a distance, the work looks like a lunar landscape, all craters and bumps. 🌕 There's an interesting relationship between the artist's choice of delicate hues, and the destructiveness action of piercing the paper. Shimamoto however, feels that his work transcends the violent nature of his techniques: ‘even if my method seems shocking and violent [...] because I am an artist my purpose is to make the work beautiful, to show the beauty of everything. I’m just working on creating beauty.’ Shozo Shimamoto was a co-founder of Japanese avant-garde group 'Gutai'. The group's radical ideas and approaches to art making anticipated later performance and conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s. Find out more, and see the painting up close in Tate Modern's free 'Performer and Participant' display.