COLLECTION OF FIVE FLUXKITS Mid-20th Century

COLLECTION OF FIVE FLUXKITS
Mid-20th Century
1) "Games & Puzzles" by George Brecht, circa 1965. Black plastic box with offset label on the cover; contains a wooden bead, a rectangular piece of foam pierced with small circles, and a printed instruction card. 3.5" x 4.75" x .75".
2) "Direction" by George Brecht, 1965. Opaque white plastic box with a printed image of a hand with a pointing finger on the front cover and mounted within the box. The pointing finger is an iconic graphic motif used by Brecht. 3.5" x 4.75" x .5".
3) "Paper Fluxwork" by Willem de Ridder, circa 1964. Plastic box with offset label; contains ten offset cards. 3.5" x 4.75" x .5".
4) "Welten mach deine Welt / macht eure Welt make your world" by Takako Saito, 1982. Cardboard box containing two pliable shapes -- a square and a triangle -- constructed from galvanized iron wire, and three 14cm x 10cm black and white photographs illustrating example placements and environments for the shapes. 4" x 5.75" x .5".
5) "Sacrament" by Carla Liss. Wooden box with a printed Biblical image; contains six vials, each having been filled with various liquids. Written in ink on underside of the cover "river pond snow stream lake falls", identifying the liquids within this kit. (Only a small amount of the "pond" liquid remains). 7" x 4.5" x 1.25".

Provenance:
The Peter Hutchinson Art Trust.
Peter Hutchinson.

Notes:
Peter Hutchinson (1930?2025) was a British-born American artist who became deeply immersed in New York's experimental art community. Although he was not a member of the Fluxus movement, he developed close friendships with many of its artists over the years. A regular at Max's Kansas City, the legendary New York gathering place for artists and musicians, Hutchinson met many of these artists there during the 1970s.

His collection of Fluxus and related works grew organically through these relationships. Rather than assembling the works solely as a collector, Hutchinson acquired many of them directly from fellow artists through friendship, exchange and trade. The resulting group offers a personal record of the artistic networks in which he participated, spanning his longstanding connections between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. The collection includes works by artists with whom Hutchinson maintained relationships over the course of decades, giving the individual objects a provenance rooted in the informal exchanges and friendships that were central to the experimental art community of the 1960s and 1970s.

Condition
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