Q Ei, whose early work was done under his real name of Hideo Sugita,
was born in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1911. At age 15, his criticism started appearing in the art magazines "Atelier" and "Mizue".
Q Ei’s first collection of photo-dessins, was published in 1936 as "The Reason for Sleep" (Nemuri No Riyu).
In 1937, he set up the art organization "Free Art Association" (Jiyu Bijutsu Kyokai). As to criticize the established public group and
Japan art world, he set up "Democratic Artists Association" in 1951.
Q Ei had great influence among the young Japanese artists at that time such as Ay-O,
Masuo IKEDA, Yukihisa ISOBE, On KAWARA, and Eikoh HOSOE. He challenged various medium such as oil paintings, photo-dessins, prints, and
created a unique world of art.
Died in 1960 at the age of 48.
2000 No.77) 10th Q Ei exhibition / from "Reason of Sleep" to stipple 12/1 -
12/16 No.67) 9th Q Ei exhibition -After 40 years of his death / Oil painting- 5/10 -
5/25
1998 No.50) 6th Q Ei exhibition -Q Ei and Toshinobu ONOSATO 12/4 -
12/19
1997 No.38) 5th Q Ei exhibition -Celebrating the publication of "Q Ei works collection" 12/12 -
12/27. No.35) Sadajirou KUBO and writers 1 -Exhibition celebrating the memorial publication of "Talking about Sadajirou KUBO" / Shuzou TAKIGUCHI, Tamiji KITAGAWA, Q Ei, Shigeru IZUMI, Yuki KATSURA, Tadashi KATOU, Ryuichi YAMASHIRO, Toshiko UCHIMA, Henry Miller, Toshinobu ONOSATO, Koushirou ONJI, Yoshitoshi MORI and others 10/24
- 1/11
1996 No.19) 4th Q Ei exhibition -Photo-dessin 10/30 -
11/9 No.16) 3rd Q Ei exhibition 7/10 -
7/27
1996 No.13) 2nd Q Ei exhibition 5/13 -
6/1 No.11) 1st Q Ei exhibition 3/6 -
3/23
Presented in catalogues
"Machida, Q Ei and their fellows" exhibition catalogue
Record of Sadajirou KUBO's lecture / Q Ei and the modern art
"Avant-garde artist's big adventure: Q Ei" exhibition catalogue
Definitive collection of prints: Q Ei works by NIKKEI
FUJI TV gallery Q Ei exhibition 1974 catalogue
Complete index of Q Ei's lithographs: limited 1000 edition, etc
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