Breeze Tune (Bronze)

Breeze Tune (Bronze) belongs to Shimura's metallic-ink serigraph editions, the strand of his practice closely identified with his name. The bronze designation refers to the metallic pigment used in printing — a warm, slightly reflective ink that shifts under changing light and gives the surface a quality unavailable in conventional pigment. The title pairs an atmospheric subject (breeze) with a musical reference (tune), suggesting an open landscape in which the bronze register carries the principal visual interest, likely across a horizon, meadow, or treeline composition. In Shimura's serigraph practice such metallic editions are typically built from a small number of clean color separations, one or more of which is printed in copper, bronze, gold, or silver ink. The bronze tonality places the work in a warm autumnal register relative to silver-keyed editions of the same period. The print sits within his larger project of bridging postwar Japanese silkscreen — flat color, lyrical landscape, repeated motif — with British contemporary serigraphy, where metallic surfaces and atmospheric tonal gradients have been a defining technical interest.