上前智祐

具体が国際的な再評価を受けたとき、すでに90歳を超えていたという最高齢。入念に造りこまれた絵肌、内へと向かうエネルギーの集積が魅力。クレーン運転手、京染の職人修業などを体験しながら、独学で南画をはじめ、後に油画へ変更。吉原治良と出会い、具体美術協会のすべての展覧会に出展を果たす。ペインティングナイフで丹念にパターンを塗り重ねた平面作品のほか、微細な縫いを施した布作品、おがくずや木を用いた彫刻など、若年期からの職業体験が多様な作品へと直結している。

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具体解散から50年｜国立国際美術館で観る具体美術協会

2023.01.04
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具体解散から50年｜大阪中之島美術館で再び現れる具体美術協会

2022.12.27
ART NEWS

「すべて未知の世界へーGUTAI 分化と統合」が大阪中之島美術館と国立国際美術館で共同開催

2022.10.19
大阪, 日本

90歳を超えて尚現役として活動したアーティスト・上前智祐にインタビュー

GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
05/35

具体の創立から解散まで全てを知る“上前智祐”の創作活動

GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
04/35

美術史家・本江邦夫が語る｜【具体美術協会】とは何か？

GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
01/35

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

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

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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