Takahashi Hisachika (b. 1940)

Born in 1940 in Tokyo, Takahashi Hisachika attended Tama Art University. In 1961, at the age of twenty-one, he sold a large-scale sculpture to the city of Yokosuka which paid for his one-way voyage to Europe by cargo boat. Throughout his career, Takahashi worked with influential mentors at the forefront of international pop and conceptual art, including Lucio Fontana and Robert Rauschenberg, but ultimately chose the path of a professional artist's assistant. He worked for Fontana after arriving in Venice in the early 1960s, and worked for Rauschenberg from 1969, initially in the former chapel that Rauschenberg bought at 381 Lafayette Street in New York City, and continued to assist him until the senior artist's death in 2008.

Thanks to recent curatorial research, Takahashi's contributions to the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s and 1970s are now being acknowledged. The work he created while active as an artist was incredibly forward-thinking and ahead of its time thanks to his use of materials and his conceptual exploration of memory. The artist currently lives and works in Vermont and Paris.

Gabriel Ritter, DMA unpublished material.

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