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
1960 Dies in Tokyo

Selected solo exhibitions

1936 Sankaku-do, Osaka
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
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
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