Artworks by Inoue Yuichi YU-ICHI at Whitestone Gallery on artnet

Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)

(Japanese, 1916–1985)

Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)

Yodaka no Hoshi (Star of Yodaka), 1984

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Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)

Sunset, 1973

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Biography

Timeline

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)

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)

Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)

(Japanese, 1916–1985)

Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)

Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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