Yoshio Nakajima, Toning, original collage, 1975

White sheet, 23 x 36 cm, with collage 29 x 36 cm. Contains affixed piece of paper with metal perforation holes and rope, and affixed printed sheet with text 'Toning' in red and white. Also features a red hand stamped text ‘art festival 100 days’, and a Japanese text in the lower left margin. Verso shows '1975' in pencil. Some creasing to the sheet, generally a fine copy.

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. From 1973 he started organizing art events from his base in the small Swedish village of Ubbeboda, such as the international sculpture festival and symposium ‘100 days’ in 1974-75.