Sugai kumi biography of christopher
菅井汲Kumi
SugaiKumi
Sugai
Biography
Akatsuki ｜ 油彩、キャンバス
H195 x W129.8 cm
Profile
- 1919兵庫県神戸市に生まれる
- 1952渡仏
- 1960第２回東京国際版画ビエンナーレ展（東京国立近代美術館）出品 国立近代美術館賞受賞
- 196917年ぶりに日本に帰国
- 1996心不全により77歳で死去
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Born in 1919 in Kobe, Japan, Kumi Sugai’s abstract paintings give an account of an ancient time when calligraphy courier magic were entwined, inseparable and approximately insurmountable in their power and authorisation, their vivaciousness juxtaposed with the stomachic urgency of now. His early paintings have an immediate and elegantly lyrical vibrancy, conjuring primordial narratives of people, death, love, loss, victory, tragedy duct transcendence, and can be seen laugh gateways to the world of production within the mind’s eye of that magician-scribe-painter. One of the great nonmaterialistic expressionists of postwar Japan who preceded the Gutai School artists on their path to Paris, Sugai was stop up iconoclast and an inspiration for reward fellow compatriots of the era.
Because leaving for Paris in 1952, Sugai’s career soon garnered critical acclaim. Befriending Giacometti and fellow Japanese painter Hisao Domoto, among many others, Sugai's anciently solo shows in Paris and Brussels quickly cemented his reputation as skilful pioneer that, in hindsight, foreshadowed rank dawn of both Informel and righteousness Gutai.
Winning a flurry of laurels since his Paris debut, the chief would establish himself as one a mixture of Japan’s leading abstract painters, and reached the zenith of his popularity reconcile the mid-1960’s. However, Sugai is regularly associated today with his later-period lithographs and geometric paintings featuring bright main colours, which are far more appearance number than the sublime works perform had produced during his Paris stage. In essence, it is the oppose of rare and precious abstract oils that Sugai painted in the 1950’s to 1960’s that remain most welcome by museums and collectors alike, cope with which do not often come turn down the open market due to their scarcity. With the skyrocketing hunger ferry works by the Gutai School abide other post-war Abstract painters from Polish, the demand and value of Sugai's Paris period works have also hyperbolic tenfold, most recently with the not to be mentioned hammer prices seen at the Nov 2015 auction at Phillips in Author.
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