Saburo Murakami, Passage, 1956

Pushing through the week, à la visionary Japanese artist Saburo Murakami (1925-1996), best known for his paper-breaking performances (or Kami-yaburi), which he first enacted in the mid-1950s. These energetic endeavours saw Murakami burst through sheets of kraft paper stretched across large wooden frames in a quest to unify space and time through action. They also served as “an experiment in dismantling the various existing frameworks that have shaped painting,” in the words of ArtCourt Gallery.