Art Basel in Basel 2024
Ei-Q
Thursday, June 13 - Sunday, June 16, 2024
©︎Ei-Q, Reason of Sleep
The Third Gallery Aya presents the photographic works of Ei-Q at Art Basel in Basel 2024.
Born Sugita Hideo (1911-1960), Ei-Q made a memorable debut in 1936 with a group of photo-dessins titled “Reason of Sleep”, and went on to explore unique imagery in media including printmaking and oil painting.
Photo-dessins (usually known as photograms) are camera-less photographs in which objects, cut paper, etc. are placed on photo paper, exposed, developed and printed.Here we present his entire debut work Reason of Sleep – 10 works and a portfolio case and others – with the goal of comprehensively introducing Ei-Q’s photographic oeuvre.
Ei-Q
Biography
| 1911 | Born in Miyazaki |
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| 1960 | Dies in Tokyo |
Selected solo exhibitions
| 1936 | Sankaku-do, Osaka |
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| 1936 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Nishimura Gakki,Miyazaki |
| 1939 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki |
| 1950 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Matsuzakaya Department Store,Tokyo |
| 1951 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,the Miyazaki City Chamber of Commerce and Industry,Miyazaki |
| 1951 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Umeda Gallery, Osaka |
| 1951 | Ei-Q,Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1952 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1952 | Ei-Q, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1952 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1953 | Ei-Q, Nobeoka City Central Community Center, Nobeoka |
| 1953 | Ei-Q Etching, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1954 | Ei-Q, Cobalt Gallery, Urawa |
| 1954 | Ei-Q Painting, Kanda Bonbodo , Tokyo |
| 1955 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins, Takashimaya Department Store,Tokyo |
| 1955 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1956 | Ei-Q,Koga Dapartment Store, Miyazaki |
| 1957 | Ei-Q Recent Works, Pensee, Miyazaki |
| 1957 | Ei-Q,Takemiya Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1957 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1960 | Ei-Q,Ginza Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo |
Selected Group exhibitions
| 1935 | 1st Furusatosha exhibition, Nishimura Gakki,Miyazaki |
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| 1935 | Furusatosha October exhibition, Nishimura Gakki,Miyazaki 1937 |
| 1937 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins and KITAO Junichiro Real Photo, Brützke Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1937 | 1st Liberal Artists Association exhibition,Tokyo |
| 1937 | 2nd Liberal Artists Association exhibition, Brützke Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1939 | Liberal Artists Association exhibition ,Tokyo |
| 1950 | 14st Liberal Artists Association exhibition ,Tokyo |
| 1951 | Ei-Q and KATSUDA Hirokazu, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka |
| 1951 | 1st Osaka Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts,Osaka |
| 1951 | 5th The Shinjukai, Tokyo |
| 1951 | 2nd Osaka Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Hankyu Gallery,Osaka |
| 1952 | 3rd Osaka Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Hankyu Gallery,Osaka |
| 1952 | 1st Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Matsushima Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1953 | 2nd Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Maruzen Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1953 | Contemporary Photography ,National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo,Tokyo |
| 1953 | Abstraction and Surrealism ,National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo,Tokyo |
| 1954 | 5th Selected Masterpieces Art exhibition, Mitsukoshi Department,Tokyo |
| 1954 | 3rd Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Maruzen Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1954 | Demokrato Etching Exhibition, Hankyu Gallery, Osaka |
| 1954 | The exhibition by Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition,Kanda Bonbodo, Tokyo |
| 1955 | Etching 6 Artists Exhibition, Takamiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1955 | 7th Nihon Independent exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| 1955 | 5th Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Mimatsu Shobo Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1956 | 2nd Etching exhibition, Takemiya, Tokyo |
| 1956 | 6th Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Matsumura Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1956 | Print exhibition,Katoya Bunbogu store, Tokyo |
| 1956 | The West and Japan-Kubo collection,Honma Museum, Sakata |
| 1957 | 3rd Etching exhibition, Takemiya, Tokyo |
| 1957 | Contemporary Print Artists Exhibition, Fukui Bank Katsuyama Branch Hall, Katsuyama |
| 1960 | Four Artists-HISHIDA Shunso, Ei-Q, KOSAKA Gajin and TAKAMURA Kotaro,National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo, Tokyo |