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• 1919兵庫県神戸市に生まれる
• 1952渡仏
• 1960第２回東京国際版画ビエンナーレ展（東京国立近代美術館）出品 国立近代美術館賞受賞
• 196917年ぶりに日本に帰国
• 1996心不全により77歳で死去

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Born in 1919 in Kobe, Japan, Kumi Sugai’s abstract paintings recount an ancient time when calligraphy and magic were entwined, inseparable and nearly insurmountable in their power and potency, their vivaciousness juxtaposed with the visceral urgency of now.

His early paintings have an immediate and elegantly elegiac vibrancy, conjuring primordial narratives of life, death, love, loss, victory, tragedy and transcendence, and can be seen as gateways to the world of creation within the mind’s eye of this magician-scribe-painter.

One of the great abstract expressionists of postwar Japan who preceded the Gutai School artists on their path to Paris, Sugai was an iconoclast and an inspiration for his fellow compatriots of the era.

Since leaving