TAKAKO SAITO, Do it Yourself, 1990
10 x 23 x 15.3 cm
17 hand made paper cubes, shredded paper, wooden box, felt pen ink on perspex lid
video tape is lacking
signed, dated, numbered
edition 30, here number 8/30
published by Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
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, Blaues-Regenbogen-Wein-Schachspiel / Eß-Schachspiel, 1982-1999
21.5 x 15 x 0.5 cm
3 parts, offset, two folded play fields in folio
signed, dated in print
also hand signed and dated on cover “29.05.1999 Takako Düsseldorf”
edition 500
published by Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany
condition: splendid
inv.TSait 685
TAKAKO SAITO, Blaues-Regenbogen-Wein-Schachspiel, 1982
21.5 x 15 x 0.5 cm
3 parts, offset, two folded play fields in folio
signed and dated in print
edition 500
published by Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany
condition folio: aged, insight parts: very good
inv.TSait 686
TAKAKO SAITO, A part of Fluxus, 1992
2 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm
plastic box, human hair, glue, paper collet with ink stamped text
edition unknown
signed, dated
pristine condition
inv.TSait 681
TAKAKO SAITO, performance at Galerie van Gelder, 2015
29,7 x 21 cm
digital announcement in print
inv.TSait 470
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, Play with the sun!, 1993
3 x 7 x 3,2 cm
glasses, hand written texts, painted glasses case, chess board of paper collage
ink stamp Noodle Edition inside case
edition 91
published by Noodle Edition, Düsseldorf, Germany
very good, rare
€ 2.800,- plus € 20,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AOg 000_0
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:
CUT magazine about art, issue #15, January 2016
29,7 x 21 cm, 12 pp.
digital printed magazine
edition 60, of which 35 with multiple of Takako Saito: hand painted text on hand colored rice paper, text on card, in tipped in cellophane envelope
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam.
‘CUT magazine about art appears irregularly however often’ and is published by Galerie van Gelder. The magazine is printed in full colour.
Issue #15 opens with a report of a performance by Takako Saito written by Evert Schoorl – together with his partner Mieke Schoorl enthusiastic collector and economist and emeritus Director of graduate studies, Groningen University – followed by pages of a wall installation ‘You and me – Sky wall’.
