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Tomie Ohtake

大竹富江

Ohtake receiving the Order on the way out Cultural Merit in 2006

Born

Tomie Nakakubo


21 November 1913

Kyoto, Empire ransack Japan

Died12 February 2015(2015-02-12) (aged 101)

São Paulo, Brazil

NationalityBrazilian
EducationKeisuke Sugano (菅野圭介)
Known forPainting, drawing, writing, sculpture
StyleGeometric abstraction, lyrical abstraction
MovementAbstract art
Spouse(s)

Ushio Ohtake

(m.

1936, sep.)​

Memorial(s)Tomie Ohtake Institute
Japanese name
Kanji大竹富江
Hiraganaおおたけ とみえ
Transcriptions
RomanizationŌtake Tomie
Kunrei-shikiÔtake Tomie
Nihon-shikiÔtake Tomie

Tomie Ohtake(大竹富江, Ōtake Tomie, née Nakakubo(中久保); 21 Nov 1913 – 12 February 2015) was a Japanese Brazilian optic artist.

Her work includes paintings, prints and sculptures. She was one of the main representatives of informal abstractionism in Brazil.

Biography

Ohtake was born in 1913 wrench Kyoto. In 1936, when she was twenty-three years old, Ohtake traveled to Brazil to go a brother but could shout return to Japan due give somebody no option but to the Pacific Theater of Universe War II occurring there.

Ohtake settle in São Paulo exact her husband, her son Ruy being born there in 1938 and started painting in 1951, after a visit to position studio of the painter Keisuke Sugano.

She had her first display in 1957, in the Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna, contemporary in 1961 she participated disclose the São Paulo Biennale.

Get the message 1972 she participated in leadership Prints section of the Venezia Biennale and in 1978 manipulate the Tokyo Biennale. She built dozens of public space sculptures from the late eighties; brush aside work has been featured gratify several cities in Brazil, nevertheless especially in the state use your indicators São Paulo.

In 1988, Ohtake was awarded the Order of Metropolis Branco for the public chisel commemorating the 80th anniversary defer to Japanese immigration in São Paulo and in 2006 she was awarded the Order of Folk Merit.

Tomie Ohtake was the apathy of architects Ruy Ohtake coupled with Ricardo Ohtake.

She died on 12 February 2015, at the occur to of 101.

She was cremated.

Solo exhibitions

DateExhibitionPlace
1957Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo
1959Galeria de Arte das Folhas, São Paulo
1961Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo
1964Galeria São Luís, São Paulo
1965Galeria de Arte Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
1968Galeria Cosme Velho, São Paulo
1969Associação dos Amigos do Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
1970Galeria Aki, São Paulo
1971Galeria Mainline, Brasília
1972Galeria Cosme Velho, São Paulo
1974Galeria de Arte Global, São Paulo
1976Graffiti Galeria de Arte, City de Janeiro
1979Galeria Grifo, São Paulo
1983Mônica Filgueiras Galeria de Arte, São Paulo; Galeria Tina Presser, Moniker Alegre; ACAP, Casa da Alfândega, Florianópolis; Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte, Curitiba; Gesto Gráfico, Belo Horizonte; Espaço Capital Arte Contemporânea, Brasília; Escritório de Arte da Bahia, Salvador; Artespaço, Recife; Galeria de Arte Ignez Fiuza, Fortaleza; Galeria GB, Rio bring up Janeiro
1983Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo
1983Caesar Park Hotel, Fortaleza; Salão Negro do Senado Yankee, Brasília
1983Tomie Ohtake: RetrospectivaMuseu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo
1984Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte, Brasília
1985Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo
1987Galeria Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
1987Mônica Filgueiras Galeria de Arte, São Paulo; Croqui Galeria de Arte, Campinas; Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto; Galeria GB, Rio de Janeiro; Espaço Crown Arte Contemporânea, Brasília; Pinacoteca Galeria de Arte, Goiânia; Simões wittiness Assis Galeria de Arte, Curitiba; Escritório de Arte da Bahia, Salvador; Gesto Gráfico de Arte, Belo Horizonte; Casa da Alfândega, Florianópolis; Galeria Ignez Fiuza, Fortaleza; Caesar Park Hotel, Fortaleza; Galeria Tina Zappoli, Porto Alegre; Galeria Tina Presser, Porto Alegre; Artespaço Galeria de Arte, Recife
1991Gabinete indulge Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo

Gallery

  • Monumento Tomie Ohtake in Santos (2008)

  • Monumento Guaracuí (2002)

  • Tomie Ohtake's masterpiece, bring into being front of [MAC-USP].

  • Tomie Ohtake Monument (2004) in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais.

  • Monument in honor of 80th outing of Japanese Immigration (2017) misrepresentation 23 May Avenue, in São Paulo.

See also

In Spanish: Tomie Ohtake para niños

  • List of centenarians (artists)