前川强 Tsuyoshi Maekawa

Photo: Courtesy of Whitestone Gallery

1936年出生于日本大阪,现生活和工作于日本大阪。他是具体美术协会的成员,1959年参加了在京都市立美术馆举办的第八届具体展。从1963年在具体画廊举办首次个展开始,前川强参加了每一次具体派的展览,一直到1972年吉原去世、该协会解散。前川强藉由画布与麻布两段式构成产生立体感与空间, 开拓了物质性绘画的新境地。具体派解散后,前川强将使用粗麻布的创作方式再加以发展,于是他改选用更柔软的布料,创作了以裁缝机缝制而成的细腻作品,并于80年代获奖无数。

 

Born in 1936,Osaka,Japan.Lives andworks in Osaka,Japan. He was a member of the Gutai Art Association and participated in the 8th Gutai Exhibition at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in 1959. Following Maekawa's first solo exhibition at the Gutai Pinacotheca in 1963, he participated in every Gutai event until the group's eventual dissolution following Yoshihara's death in 1972. Maekawa pioneered a new field of material painting. This innovative approach produces a unique stereoscopic effect and imbues the artwork with a sense of depth and space.After the dissolution of GUTAI, Maekawa further developed his style of paintings by incorporating dungarees and presenting works composed of delicately sewn softer fabrics using a sewing machine. These artistic endeavours earned him many awards in the 1980s.



个展 Solo Exhibition:

2020   Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium

2020   Tsuyoshi Maekawa. Exhibition series "Worldwide Artists ofAsia with ContinuousEvaluation from Today's Perspective, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan

2018   Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Sotheby's Sl2 Gallery, London, UK

2017   Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong

2017   Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Salon Saatchi Gallery, London,UK

2017   Beyond Matter, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2017   Tsuyoshi Maekawa: In Commemoration of the Publication of Maekawa and Maekawa II, ArtCourt Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2016   Tsuyoshi Maekawa in the 1970s, Axel Vervoordt Gallery,Antwerp, Belgium

2014   Maekawa - The Gutai Works, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2014   Dominique Lévy, New York, USA

2013   LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2013   Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010   Orie Gallery,Tokyo, Japan

2010   LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2006   LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2005   Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

2005   Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

2005   Fragrance Art, Ashiya, Japan

2003   Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2003   LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan.

2002   Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

2002   Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

2001   Orie Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1997   Gallery 17, Osaka, Japan

1997   Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

1997   Gallery Arai, Nishinomiya, Japan

1996   Gallery 141, Osaka, Japan

1996   LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1995   Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

1994   Gallery Arai, Nishinomiya, Japan

1994   Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

1993   Blancart, Kochi, Japan

1993   Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1993   Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

1993   Gallery Zin, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan

1993   Gallery Hanamitsu, Osaka, Japan

1992   Memories Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1991   Gallery Kozuchi, Ashiya, Japan

1991   Pontocho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1991   Gallery Blanche,Osaka, Japan

1991   Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1991   Pontocho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1990   Gallery Hanamitsu, Osaka, Japan

1990   Pontocho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1990   Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan

1990   Gallery Zin, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan

1990   Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan

1990   Memories Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1988   Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan

1987   Ars Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1986   Le Parc, Osaka, Japan

1986   Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan

1985   Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1985   Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto, Japan

1983   Ban Garow, Osaka, Japan

1983   Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1982   Space Adesso, Ashiya, Japan

1982   Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1980   Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1979   Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1978   Tor Road Gallery, Kobe, Japan

1977   Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1975   Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1963   Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan



群展 Group Exhibition:

2024   Freedom and Forms in Gutai: Tsuyoshi Maekawa x Yuko Nasaka, Whitestone Gallery, Beijing, China

2018   Gutai, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA

2017   INTUITION, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, ltaly

2017   Painting On The Edge: A Historical Survey, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

2016   Made in Japan,CC Strombeek, Brussels, Belgium

2013   Gutai: Splendid Playground (Gutai Card Box), Solomon R.GuggenheimMuseum, New York, USA

2013   50 Years ofJapanese Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

2013   Osaka's Cultural Golden Age: The Gutai Pinacotheca as a Grand Experiment,Osaka University, Japan

2013   General Sciences Museum, Osaka, Japan

2013   Tapies, the Eye ofthe Artist, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, ltaly

2013   Art Osaka 2013, Hotel Granvia, Osaka, Japan

2013   Work with Cloth: Former Gutai Artists Today (lmai Norio, Horio Sadaharu, Maekawa Tsuyoshi), Gallery Takasebune, Ashiya, Japan

2012   Art Kyoto 2012, Hotel Monterey, Kyoto, Japan

2012   Gutai: The Spirit ofan Era, The National Art Center Tokyo, Japan

2011   Nul= o, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2010   "Ge" Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

2009   "Ge” Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

2007   30 Years Collecting (3oth anniversary exhibition), The National Museum of Art,Osaka, Japan

2005   Hyogo International Painting Competition, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Hyogo, Japan

2005   58th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

2004   New Year's Exhibition ofSmall Work, Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

2004   “Ge”Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

2004   57th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

2004   Gutai After 1972 in Kyoto, Art Forum Jarfo, Kyoto, Japan

2004   Gutai Retrospective, Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan

2003   “Ge”New Year's Exhibition ofSmall Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

2003   56th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

2003   Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea

2002   Inaugural Exhibition, Prefectural Museum, Hyogo, Japan

2002   55th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

2002   1960s Graphism, Printing Museum,Tokyo, Japan

2002   Artists ofGutai, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan

2001   Osaka Art Panorama, ATC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2001   54th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

2001   Invitation to Contemporary Art: Japanese Avant-Garde since the 1g6os, Tottor Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan

2000   “Ge”New Year's Exhibition ofSmall Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

2000   Osaka Art: 21st Century Directions, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

2000   53rd Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan