Ei-Q's real name is Hideo Sugita. He started announcing a review on an art magazine in mid teens, and working oil painting and photograph in the mid-1920s. In 1936, his 'Photo dessin', a work with a photographic paper, got a recognition so that he could debut in the art world. At that moment, Sugita started using the stage name 'Ei-Q'.

After the war, he worked a print using etching and lithograph, and his unique and fantastic creation with a characteristic of postwar and theoretical perspective affected on other artists. Especially, his activity on 'Democratic Artists Association', which many Kansai artists participated in, has a valuable meaning in postwar art in Kansai. He died before his time, but his works covering various genre was unprecedented.

In this exhibition, paper works with his important expressing methods, print and photograph, will be on display.

*image (left)
wanderer, 1957
lithograph on paper
© Ei-Q

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama