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Keiji Usami

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Usami Keiji

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1940-01-29 （Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan）
死没
2012-10-19 72歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Suita (Osaka Prefecture) → Wakayama City (Wakayama Prefecture) → Osaka City (Osaka Prefecture) → Tokyo

経歴

職業
Painter, Art educator, Professor
活動期間
1960年〜2012年
所属
Tama Art University (Associate Professor), Musashino Art University (Professor), Kyoto City University of Arts (Professor)
影響を受けた人物
Marcel Duchamp

学歴

Osaka Prefectural Tennoji High School
期間: 1955-1958
卒業年: 1958
国: Japan
Tokyo University of the Arts (applicant, not admitted)
期間: 受験時期: 1958頃
国: Japan
Did not enroll; began producing work as a self-taught artist
Self-taught
期間: 1958-
国: Japan
Settled in Tokyo and began creating work as a self-taught artist

受賞歴

Japan Arts Grand Prize
1989
主催: Japanese arts organizations
結果: winner
Art Encouragement Prize (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
2002
主催: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Reduction No.2

1963年 Painting (Contemporary art)

One of his early representative works, demonstrating experimental abstract expression in the 1960s.

AbstractionFragmented human silhouettes

Ghost Plan in Process I–IV

1972年 Painting (Contemporary art)

A representative series from the 1970s exploring layered structures and ethereal spatial expression.

LayersSpace

Control / Great Flood

2011年 Painting (Contemporary art)

A late-career series that includes works shown in his final solo exhibition (March 2012).

Apocalyptic motifsNature and humanity

全著作

  • Theory of Painting — The Restoration of Drawing (Chikuma Shobo, 1980)
  • Portraits of Line — From the Horizons of Contemporary Art (Ozawa Shoten, 1980)
  • Duchamp (Iwanami Shoten, 1984)
  • From Signs to Form — Seeking Themes in Contemporary Painting (Chikuma Shobo, 1985)
  • Methods of Painting (Ozawa Shoten, 1994)
  • On Imaginary Art (Shin-Yosha, 1994)
  • Twentieth-Century Art (Iwanami Shoten, 1994)
  • Cosmology of Pictorial Space — Keiji Usami: Works (Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1999)
  • Pilgrimage to Ruins — A Journey Questioning the Future of Humanity and Art (Heibonsha, 2000)

作風・主題

文体
Abstract, experimental pictorial expressionLayered structures and mutable spatial representation
頻出モチーフ
CirclesLayersFragmented human silhouettes

健康

  • Esophageal cancer
    不詳 - 2012年
    Affected his health in later years and was cited as a contributing factor to his death
  • Heart failure
    2012年（死因）
    Reported as the cause of death in October 2012

評価・遺産

One of the leading Japanese contemporary painters since the 1960s. Praised for his abstract expression and structural compositions; his works are held in many public collections, and he contributed significantly as an art educator.

記念館・博物館

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Kitanomaru Park, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
  • The National Museum of Art, Osaka Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
  • Sezon Museum of Modern Art Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture (collection)

資料所蔵先

  • Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (retrospective materials)
  • Collection archives of various museums holding his works

引用

  • To draw is an extension of thinking; painting is another language for speaking.
    出典: Theory of Painting — The Restoration of Drawing (Chikuma Shobo, 1980) (1980年)

豆知識

  • A mural he created for the University of Tokyo co-op dining hall ('Kizuna') was reported disposed of during building renovation in 2017.
  • He exhibited in MoMA's 1965 show 'New Japanese Painting and Sculpture'.