{"title":"Arnulf Rainer","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublications, ephemera, and printed matter relating to the work of Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929, Baden, Austria). Painter, photographer, and performance artist; known for his overpainting of photographs and his body language series. Represented Austria at the Venice Biennale, 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"arnulf-rainer-linguaggio-del-corpo-biennale-1978","title":"Arnulf Rainer — Linguaggio del corpo, Biennale di Venezia, 1978","description":"\u003cp\u003eBiennale di Venezia, Austrian presentation.\u003cbr\u003e4-page folded pamphlet \/ exhibition object.\u003cbr\u003e27 × 21 cm. Offset print on thin wove stock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for Arnulf Rainer's contribution to the Austrian presentation at the 1978 Venice Biennale, this pamphlet condenses a body of work into a small printed support: self-representations, altered photographic images, body positions, ecstasies, entanglements, death masks. A national-pavilion handout, but also a reduced form of the work's own logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interior reproduces a sequence of Rainer's 1970s photo-based works under Italian headings, while the reverse carries \u003cem\u003eAutorappresentazioni\u003c\/em\u003e, a compact first-person text on self-image, falsification, psychic intensification, and the instability of identity. The publication does not merely explain the work. It repeats its method in print: selection, reduction, distortion, and remainder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor The New Rare, the interest lies in the object's double condition. It is both support material and residue: a Biennale pamphlet that survives as a minor document of placement, translation, and national framing. The imposed horizontal fold across the sheet — evidently made after issue, against its intended flat format — interrupts the object's original state but also gives it a second physical history. Not damage alone, but a further inscription of passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good vintage condition with visible handling wear, toning, light creasing, and a strong horizontal fold across the centre from later forced folding. Minor edge wear and soft corner wear. Structurally sound. The fold remains the defining condition note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRainer's work of this period moved through overpainting, self-portrait distortion, facial grimace, bodily compression, and photographic intervention. This pamphlet sits close to that moment and retains it in a thin, portable form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biennale di Venezia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190153797970,"sku":"RAINER-1978-BDV","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Arnulf_Rainer_1978_0001_9733b6a4-0894-4b99-8ab1-67a3df5e6803.jpg?v=1776125694"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/collections\/Arnulf_Rainer_1978_0001_9733b6a4-0894-4b99-8ab1-67a3df5e6803.jpg?v=1776125796","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/arnulf-rainer.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}