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Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)
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Japanese
, 1916–1985)
Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)
KANZAN (COLD MOUNTAIN),
1978
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1916
Born at Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan
1935
Graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Aoyama Normal School (present-day Tokyo Gakugei University)
1971
Published Hana-no-Sho-Cho as the first book of his works
1977
Published Sho by Yu-Ichi 49 -'77
1981
Published Manaita
Exhibitions
2016
A Centennial Exhibition INOUE Yuichi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (solo)
2015
Calligraphic Abstraction, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA (group)
The End of Modernity in Calligraphy: From Yuichi Inoue, Lee Ufan to Zhang Yu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (group)
Far Yet Close: Calligraphy by Inoue Yuichi, Musée Tomo, Tôkyô, Japan (solo)
Yuichi Inoue, Setouchi City Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan (solo)
Buddha - 108 Encounteres, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (group)
2013
Contemporary Art and Calligraphy - At the Nexus of Painting and Writing, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (group)
Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (group)
2012
Inoue Yuichi: Painting with All of One’s Heart and the Avantgarde Art of Calligraphy, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan (solo)
2011
The Art of Writing, Kurhaus-Kolonnaden, Wiesbaden, Germany (group)
2009
Ink Painting, Calligraphy: The Third Abstraction, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China (group)
2005
Yu-ichi and Uecker, Zeichen setzen, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (group)
2004
War and Art, Gunma Prefectual Museum of Art, Takasaki, Japan (group)
Inoue Yu-Ichi [Hin], Monma Gallery, Sapporo, Japan (solo)
2000
Yu-Ichi Vivant, Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Chigasaki, Japan (solo)
Yu-Ichi Ali, Ciampino, Rome, Italy (solo)
Yu-Ichi Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, RAKU Gallery of Kyoto, Kyoto and University of Aoyama Spiral Garden Hall, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996
Yu-Ichi Hin -werke 1954 bis 1982, Kunsthalle, Galerie im Karmeliterkloster and Müseum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (group)
1995
Yu-Ichi 1916-1985, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1994 - 1995
Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, NY, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA (group)
1993
Arbeiten auf Papier, Japan Art Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (group)
1989
Yu-Ichi Works 1955-85, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
1987
Yu-Ichi’s Hundred Hana, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1986
Yu-Ichi Zeppitsu – Yu-Ichi, Psyché Calligraphy – Parting Thoughts, NEWZ, Roppongi, Tokyo and Nishinomiya Citizens' Gallery in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan (solo)
Yu-Ichi Vivant, Seed Hall, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1984
Yu-Ichi Kotoba-Gaki (Wordworks), UNAC Salon, Tokyo and Gallery Ban Garo, Osaka, Japan (solo)
1982
1955 and Now, Wako Hall, Tokyo, Japan (group)
1980
Asahi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
1979
Japan Today, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA (group)
1976
Sho-Modern Japanische Schreibkunst, traveling exhibition in Germany (group)
1973
Development of Postwar Japanese Art: Abstract and Non-Figurative, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (group)
1972
Ichibankan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1971
Ichibankan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1969
Contemporary Art Dialogue between the East and the West, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (group)
1967
The 1st Japan Gendai Sho Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (group)
1966
The 1st Japan Art Festival, Union Carbide Company headquarters, New York, NY, USA (group)
1965
YU-ICHI Calligraphien, Wuppertal Kunst und Museumseverein, Wuppertal, Germany (solo)
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1963
Schrift und Bild, Calligraphien Japanischer Meister der Gegenwart, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (group)
1962
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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Literature
Critical biography by Masaomi Unagami: YU-ICHI (Tokyo: Masaomi Unagami, UNAC Tokyo, 2005)
Yu-Ichi Parting Thoughts (Tokyo: Masaomi Unagami, UNAC Tokyo, 1986)
Taka (Tokyo: Masaomi Unagami, UNAC Tokyo, 1982)
Manaita (Tokyo: Masaomi Unagami, UNAC Tokyo, 1981)
Sho by Yu-Ichi 49 -'77 (Tokyo: Masaomi Unagami, UNAC Tokyo, 1977)
Hana-no-Sho-Cho (Tokyo: Masaomi Unagami, UNAC Tokyo, 1971)
