AKI-Fluxfest, 1981 [poster]

AKI-Fluxfest, 1981
49.4 x 33.5 cm
screen print on paper, poster folded as mailed (17 x 24.8 cm)
condition: reasonable, tear lower left, missing chip of paper
rare
inv.Fluxus 687

 

Peter van Beveren and Harry Ruhé invited Fluxus artists to participate in a Fluxus Festival at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede in The Netherlands. Participating artists were Eric Andersen, Giuseppe Chiari, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Bob Lens, Wim T. Schippers, Takako Saito, Ludwig Gosewitz, Milan Knizak and Mischa Mengelberg. The director Sipke Huismans of the AKI gave carte blanche to the two curators. Van Beveren and Ruhé managed nine artists to come over for five days to this Fluxus event, namely Eric Andersen, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Bob Lens, Wim T. Schippers, Takako Saito, Ludwig Gosewitz, Milan Knizak and Mischa Mengelberg. Every artist got a fee of Dfl. 3.000,- (“It is about time that artists should be properly paid…’). In the end the AKI almost went bankrupt caused by the high bills of hotel, dinner and free booze, trip and traveling costs.

TAKAKO SAITO, Würfelstuhl, 1979

TAKAKO SAITO, Würfelstuhl, 1979
3,2 x 7,2 x 5,1 cm
signed, dated, numbered / here nr. 23/75
edition 75
published by E. Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 1.150,- plus € 16,- registered mail Trace & Track
inv.TSait 695

 

This edition is also in the collection of the Moma, New York, USA: Takako Saito. The work was a gift from The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection.

 

 

TAKAKO SAITO, Würfelstuhl, 1979
3,2 x 7,2 x 5,1 cm
signed, dated, numbered / here nr. 60/75 sold
edition 75
published by E. Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany

TAKAKO SAITO, Hutschachspiel, 1990




editions Galerie van Gelder

TSaito1990schachhutspielA700

TAKAKO SAITO, Hutschachspiel, 1990
ca 16,5 x 21,5 x 27 cm
grey bowler hat, gouache, wooden chess pieces
signed, numbered, dated
edition 10 + 2 AP
sold

The edition Hutschachspiel comes in the colour black. There is an AP edition of 2 that comes in grey; here number AP 2/2. The miniature set of wooden chess pieces are put on a tiny hand painted chess board pattern.

Inside the brim of the hat:
TSaito1990schachhutspiel-verso700