CHIYU UEMAE CHIYU UEMAE

CHIYU UEMAE

CHIYU UEMAE
CHIYU UEMAE

Chiyu Uemae was born in Kyoto in 1920. He was part of the Gutai Art Association Group and created his unique world as an abstract artist. Experiencing various jobs, such as a crane operator and an apprentice at a traditional dyeing factory in Kyoto, Uemae studied Chinese ‘Nan-ga’ then shifts to oil painting. In 1953, Uemae met Yoshihara, and since then, Uemae has taken part in every Gutai exhibition until its dissolution. Uemae's artistic creations encompass a wide range of mediums, including two-dimensional works characterised by pattern accumulation achieved through the use of painting knives or delicate stitching, as well as sculptural pieces crafted from wood or sawdust. These diverse expressions are rooted in his formative experiences during adolescence. He used traditional Japanese colours exclusively or combined them according to Japanese artistic traditions. Uemae expertly blended tradition and originality into a single style.

 

ABOUT GUTAI »

ARTWORKS

NEWS

50 Years Since the End | The Gutai Art Association as seen at the National Museum of Art, Osaka

January 4, 2023
ART NEWS

50 Years Since the End | The Gutai Art Association Revives at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

December 27, 2022
ART NEWS

ARTICLES

“Into the Unknown World — GUTAI: Differentiation and Integration” at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art and the National Museum of Art

October 19, 2022
Osaka, Japan

Active Artist Passing the Age of Ninety | Interview with Chiyu Uemae
GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
05/35
Chiyu Uemae’s Creative Endeavors as the Oldest Witness to Gutai’s Founding and Dissolution
GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
04/35
Art Historian Kunio Motoe’s Take On the “Gutai Art Association”
GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
01/35

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS

COLLECTIONS

Ashiya City Museum of Art & History / Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art / Osaka Contemporary Art Center / Osaka Municipal Museum of Modern Art / The National Museum of Art, Osaka / Itabashi Art Museum / Niigata Art Museum / Fukuoka Art Museum / Kitakyushu Art Museum / International Print Museum in Machida, Tokyo Municipal Administration Memorial of Maizuru City Musée d'art / modern et contemporain, Toulouse (France) The Miyagi Museum of Art / Chiba City Museum of Art / Nerima Art Museum / Yokohama Museum of Art / The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama / Old Hyogo Prefectural Office Building / Fukui Fine Art Museum / The Tokushima Modern Art Museum / The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas

IMAGES

Untitled, 1960s, Mixedmedia on board
South Temple, 1963, Oil on canvas
Untitled, 1971-72, Oil on board
Untitled, 1973
Untitled, 1985
Work, 1970-1990, Oil on canvas

BIOGRAPHY

2018
TEFAF TWENTY, Fergus McCaffrey, New York
2017
Gutai & The Japanese Avant-Garde: Small Painting and Drawings 1958-1996, W. Alxander, Brooklyn
Impasto: The Gestural and Sensuous in Japanese Abstract Paintings, SAKURADO FINE ARTS, Tokyo
Gutai Spirit, H.ARTS COLLECTIVE, Singapore
2016
Gutai: Selected Small Works, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
Gallery Collection: GUTAI Group Show, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
2015
Exhibition "Chiyu Uemae- A Solitary Path", Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong
Gallery Collection, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
gutai, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
2014
Exhibition "Gutaijin in Karuizawa", Karuizawa New Art Museum
2013
Exhibition “GUTAI: Splendid Playground,” at The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Chiyu Uemae Special Exhibition at The Armory Show Modern 2013, Pier 92 (Booth 454)
2012
Exhibition “Wind of Karuizawa” - 19 Uemae works, at Karuizawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa
Exhibition “GUTAI: The Spirit of an Era,” at The National Art Center, Tokyo
Exhibition “Destroying the Picture - Painting the Void: 1949-1962,” at Los Angeles MOCA
Chiyu Uemae Special Exhibition at Los Angeles Art Platform 2012
The Solo Exhibition “Chiyu Uemae – Jigado”, at BB Plaza Museum of Art, Kobe
2011
Exhibition “Chiyu Uemae,” at Galllery LADS, Osaka
2010
Exhibition “Chiyu Uemae,” at Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum
2009
Exhibition “Museum Collection 2009-1,” at The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
2008
Exhibition “Gutai to Contemporary” at Gallery LADS, Osaka
Exhibition “GUTAI and after” at DOKA Contemporary Arts, Tokyo
Exhibition of 3 Artists at Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie
Exhibition “Dots Talk : UEMAE Chiyu, YAMANAKA Yoshikazu, TSUBOTA Masahiko,” at Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
2007
Exhibition of New Prints at Gallery LADS, Osaka
Collection of The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2006
Exhibition “World of Chiyu Uemae” at CASO Museum, Osaka
2005
Exhibition “Chiyu Uemae and GUTAI Art Association” at Fukuoka Art Museum
2004
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, ‘GUTAI 1954-1972’, Kobe,
Japan National Museum of Modern Art, ‘Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art’, kyoto, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
2002
Solo exhibition: Print (silkscreen) (LADS Gallery, Osaka)
Solo exhibition: Print (etching) (Gallery MAYA, Takatsuki)
2001
Solo exhibition of Print works (Gallery 1100, New York)
Solo exhibition of Stitch (Itami Civic Craft Center)
Solo exhibition of Print (Gallery Kuranuki Osaka)
2000
Solo exhibition for the memory of “Kobekko Award: Dark-blue Ribbon Medal, Cultural Achievement Award from the Governor of Hyogo Prefecture (Kobe)
1999
Gutai Exhibition in Paris (Galerie Nationale du jeu de Paume, Paris France)
61 works went to Osaka Prefectural Public Collection after solo exhibition hold by the prefecture
Solo exhibition at Maizuru Municipal Administration Memorial Museum planned by Komei Shimizu
1997
Contemporary Stitch Japan Style (Montclair State University, USA)
1996
The Year of Avant-Garde Artists: Change and Continuity (Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo)
1995
Publication at author’s own expense “Koritsu no Michi” (Collected works: An Independent Path)
1991
Avant-Garde Japan: The Gutai Group in 1950s (Rome National Museum of Modern Art, Italy)
1989
Maboroshi no Yamamura Collection exhibition (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe)
1985
The Exhibition of the Storm of Painting in 1950-60: Informel/Gutai/Cobra (The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Publication at author’s own expense “Jigado” (Personal Artistic Way)
1983
Solo exhibition “Ink Painting” and “Print-works” at Contemporary Art Center (Osaka)
1982
Solo exhibition “Oil painting and Stitch” at Contemporary Art Center (Osaka)
1976
Since around this year began producing stitching art Participated in Ge Exhibition, withdrew in 2002
1970
Gutai Art Exhibition at Expo’70, Midori-kan Entrance Hall (Osaka)
1966
Second International Art Exhibition in Lausanne, Switzerland (major work 162×130 cm was purchased)
1958
World Exhibition of New Art (given favourable comment by Mr. Michel Tapie) Gutai Art Exhibition in New York
1954
Participated in the formation of the Gutai Art Association (dissolved in 1972)
1953
Study under Jiro Yoshihara
1951
First Solo Exhibition
1947
Sent works to 1st Niki Group Exhibition
1932-38
Apprenticed to Kyoto Dyeing orchestrator, also to banner-dyeing shop to learn the usage of resist paste. Self-educated illustrating, portrait painting, the southern school of Chinese Painting
1920
Born in Kyoto Prefecture

 

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