Yoshimi Arts is pleased to present “Shigeru Izumi 70's”.
Izumi had established a reputation in Japan as a printmaker during the 1950’s, when he founded the Democratic Artists Association with Ei-Q and Yoshio Hayakawa. Thereafter, he moved abroad, and came in contact with that the abstract expressionism movement was slowly transitioning to pop art in New York, and with the art informel movement in Paris. These experiences deeply influenced him and he began to create works that reconsider the essence of the act of drawing.
In this exhibition, we will exhibit his 70's oil paintings and prints with the documents.
| Shigeru Izumi >> |
| 1922 |
Born in Osaka City. |
| 1939 |
Graduated from Craft and Design Course, Osaka City Kogei School |
| 1951 |
Established "Democratic Artists Association" (～'57) |
| 1959 |
Visited to America and became a guest professor of the print factory "Pratt Institute" in New York (～'62) |
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| 1963 |
Immigrated to Paris (～'68) |
| 1970 |
Became a professor at Fine Arts Department, Osaka University of Arts (～'92) |
| 1995 |
Died. |
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| Exhibitions (lifetime) |
| 1957 |
"The 1st Tokyo International Print Biennale"(won the Newcomer's Award) |
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"The 4th Bienal International de Artes de São Paulo" (Brazil) |
| 1965 |
"The Japanese New Painting and Sculpture" (circulated eight museums In the U.S.A. including The Museum of Modern Art, New York) (～'67) |
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| 1975 |
"Art Now’75" (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art) |
| 1978 |
"Series 'Today's Artist', Shigeru Izumi -after 1963-" (Osaka Prefectural Gallery) |
| 1980 |
"Shigeru Izumi Solo Exhibition" (Ban Gallery/Osaka) (※'81, '84, '87, '92, '93, '94) |
| 1983 |
"Kansai Artists Series 1, Waichi Tsutaka・Shigeru Izumi・Hideo Yoshihara" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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| 1986 |
"Ei-Q and the surroundings" (circulated three museums including The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama) |
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| 1993 |
"Sadajiro Kubo and artists - postwar, early prints" (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts /Tokyo) |
| 1994 |
"Kansai Art 1950's～1970's" （Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art ） |
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| Exhibitions (retrospective) |
| 1996 |
"Shigeru Izumi" (Itami City Museum of Art/Hyogo) |
| 1998 |
"Shigeru Izumi－Early prints" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
| 1999 |
"DEMOKRATO 1951 ～ 1957 －The Liberation of Art in Postwar Japan―" (circulated three museums including The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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| 2005 |
"IZUMI Shigeru: a retrospective" ( The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
| 2006 |
"Photographs of Shigeru Izumi" (The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga) |
| 2012 |
"Shigeru Izumi Special Exhibition" (Sakai City Cultural Hall Gallery/Osaka) |
| 2015 |
"Prints Travelogue of Shigeru Izumi on the 20th anniversary of his death" (BB Plaza Museum of Art/Hyogo) |
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| 2016 |
"Prints of Shigeru Izumi"(The Tokushima Modern Art Museum) |
| 2017 |
"Handsome Heart, Handsome Art: The World of Izumi Shigeru" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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Shigeru Izumi "PAINTINGS 1971-93" (Yoshimi Arts, the three konohana/Osaka) |
| 2018 |
"Shigeru Izumi 1960-70s" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
| 2019 |
"Shigeru Izumi Drawings 1960's" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
| *including the titles translated by us |
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| Collection |
| The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Itami City Museum of Art; Osaka City Museum of Modern Art; Osaka Prefecture; Sakai City; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Carnegie Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art |
