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Mostly a background figure in New York’s pop art scene, Hisachika Takahashi worked as a professional artist’s assistant, but produced a small body of work in the 1960s and 1970s. This piece is part of a series of untitled flower paintings first shown in 1967. Through the use of industrial rubber rollers, overlapping patterns of fluorescent and phosphorescent colors are applied over a solid base. The phosphorescent pigment causes the paintings to glow under black light. The resulting works resemble psychedelic wallpapers, bordering between abstraction and pop art. Takahashi was an assistant to Lucio Fontana at the time this painting was made, and was later the primary assistant to Robert Rauschenberg, whom he met in 1969. Takahashi worked for Rauschenberg until his death in 2008.
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- Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 225.
NOTES
12/4/18- removed the below text from general description and replaced with the Two x Two catalogue entry. Archived both versions. CLC.
DMA unpublished material = Gabriel Ritter, "Acquisition Proposal" in Collections Records object file (2014.14).
This work belongs to a series of Untitled flower paintings Hisachika Takahashi produced in the 1960s while working in Venice as assistant to Lucio Fontana. He employed industrial rubber rollers to apply overlapping layers of floral patterns in bright fluorescent and phosphorescent colors. The resulting work on canvas has an all-over composition similar to wallpaper and glows in the dark thanks to its phosphorescent pigment.
- Gabriel Ritter, DMA unpublished material.
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2014: Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amFAR Benefit Auction Fund, purchased from Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
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The main source for this provenance is the Acquisition Consideration Form in the Collections Records object file.
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- WIELS, Brussels~Review commentary from Hisachika's exhibition at WIELS in 2013.
- Minneapolis Institute of Art~See another of Hisachika's fluorescent flower paintings.
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General Description
Mostly a background figure in New York’s pop art scene, Hisachika Takahashi worked as a professional artist’s assistant, but produced a small body of work in the 1960s and 1970s. This piece is part of a series of untitled flower paintings first shown in 1967. Through the use of industrial rubber rollers, overlapping patterns of fluorescent and phosphorescent colors are applied over a solid base. The phosphorescent pigment causes the paintings to glow under black light. The resulting works resemble psychedelic wallpapers, bordering between abstraction and pop art. Takahashi was an assistant to Lucio Fontana at the time this painting was made, and was later the primary assistant to Robert Rauschenberg, whom he met in 1969. Takahashi worked for Rauschenberg until his death in 2008.
Adapted from
- Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 225.
Fun Facts
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- WIELS, Brussels~Review commentary from Hisachika's exhibition at WIELS in 2013.
- Minneapolis Institute of Art~See another of Hisachika's fluorescent flower paintings.
Notes
12/4/18- removed the below text from general description and replaced with the Two x Two catalogue entry. Archived both versions. CLC.
DMA unpublished material = Gabriel Ritter, "Acquisition Proposal" in Collections Records object file (2014.14).
This work belongs to a series of Untitled flower paintings Hisachika Takahashi produced in the 1960s while working in Venice as assistant to Lucio Fontana. He employed industrial rubber rollers to apply overlapping layers of floral patterns in bright fluorescent and phosphorescent colors. The resulting work on canvas has an all-over composition similar to wallpaper and glows in the dark thanks to its phosphorescent pigment.
- Gabriel Ritter, DMA unpublished material.
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Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
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Individuals
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PROVENANCE
2014: Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amFAR Benefit Auction Fund, purchased from Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
Notes:
The main source for this provenance is the Acquisition Consideration Form in the Collections Records object file.
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