Yoshio Nakajima, set of 7 unique prints, 1975

Offset printed black on paper of different colours, each 36 x 27 cm. All sheets signed by the artist, with hand added elements such as date stamps, ‘Unbeat’ stamps, texts in crayon, pencil and felt-tip. The grey sheet has overlay printing, a pinhole to the centre encircled in green, three small indented dots in triangle formation, rubber stamps, marker and crayon notations. All works in very good condition. (total 7)

Japanese experimental artist and cultural activist Yoshio Nakajima (1940) worked amongst the avant-garde in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. He was involved with Provo in the Netherlands, Happenings in Belgium (in both countries he was expelled for staging illegal performances), the Swedish Bauhaus Situationistes, Fluxus and Mail Art, coining his own performative actions 'Unbeat'. From 1973 he started organizing art seminars and events from his base in Ubbeboda (Sweden), drawing international artists to the small village as a kind of 'Art Missionary/Professor'.