For our fourth presentation, TRST will display two paintings by Hisachika Takahashi from 1966. This presentation of historic works aims to highlight the dynamic conceptual practice of an artist who has worked within both the center and the periphery of the contemporary art world for the past half-century.
Hisachika Takahashi (b. 1940, Tokyo) is an artist based in Vermont and Paris whose work deals with memory as well as with the creation of community through collaboration. He oversaw Robert Rauschenberg’s studio starting in 1969 until the artist’s passing in 2008, and also previously worked in Milan for Lucio Fontana (1964) and Roberto Crippa (1962–64). His time in New York was also marked by his involvement with 112 Workshop, the earliest iteration of White Columns, and the artist-run restaurant Food.
Takahashi’s works are in collections including The Menil Collection, Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum Voorlinden, Wassennaar, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Consolandi Collection, Milan. His recent solo and two person exhibitions include MISAKO & ROSEN (2021), Maison Hermes Le Forum (with Yuki Okumura), Tokyo (2016) and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (in collaboration with Yuki Okumura) (2013). He has participated in group exhibitions at The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2018), Prada Foundation, Milan (2016), Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (1981), Museum of Modern Art, New York (1974) and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1973) amongst others.
