{"title":"Centre Georges Pompidou","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition ephemera, printed matter, and documents issued by or in connection with the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris — one of the world’s leading institutions for modern and contemporary art, design, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"antonin-artaud-dessins-centre-georges-pompidou-paris-1987","title":"Antonin Artaud — Dessins, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrivate view invitation \/ exhibition card\u003cbr\u003eCentre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris\u003cbr\u003e30 June – 11 October 1987\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003cbr\u003eRecto reproduces Antonin Artaud, \u003cem\u003ePortrait de Jany de Ruy\u003c\/em\u003e, 2 July 1947\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e very good; light toning, minor edge wear, faint handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for the inauguration of \u003cem\u003eAntonin Artaud: Dessins\u003c\/em\u003e at the Centre Georges Pompidou, 30 June 1987. Exhibition presented until 11 October 1987, Salle d’Art Graphique, 4th floor. Invitation valid for two persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reproduced work, \u003cem\u003ePortrait de Jany de Ruy\u003c\/em\u003e, is held by the Musée national d’art moderne \/ Centre Pompidou and was made at the maison de santé du Dr Delmas, Ivry, in graphite and greasy coloured chalk on paper. The Pompidou records the drawing as signed and dated by Artaud on 2 July 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1987 exhibition gathered Artaud’s graphic work at the Musée national d’art moderne, including the early \u003cem\u003eSorts\u003c\/em\u003e of 1939, calligraphed, drawn and burned letters, later drawings from 1948, notebooks and correspondence. The Pompidou describes the exhibition as bringing together more than sixty drawings, with many works leaving private collections for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis card is not the catalogue. It is the access object. The institutional surface through which Artaud’s drawings entered the museum: name, date, room, press hour, invitation status, reproduced wound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a reproduction in the ordinary sense. Not a later document. A surviving exhibition support from the opening structure itself. Held outside the institutional archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue remains traceable. The invitation does not circulate in the same way. Its function was temporary: admit, announce, disappear. Here it survives as a small Pompidou object, carrying Artaud’s late graphic violence in reduced administrative form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA borderline artwork-object: Artaud’s drawing translated into museum card, the museum card returned to circulation as image, document, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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The exhibition was organized through the Centre de Création Industrielle and formed part of a broader travelling project realized by the \u003cem\u003eConsorzio Mostra Itinerante Castiglioni\u003c\/em\u003e, with participation from Galerie Néotu for the Paris presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe front cover uses a reduced graphic language of deep blue forms bounded by red bars, associated with the visual identity system developed by Swiss graphic designer Jean Widmer, whose work helped define the institutional language of the Pompidou during this period. The interior carries dense red typography with opening details and exhibition information in a sharply administrative register.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1985, Achille Castiglioni had already become one of the most influential figures in postwar industrial design. Rather than treating objects as isolated formal problems, Castiglioni frequently worked through adaptation, displacement, and everyday observation. The exhibition title — \u003cem\u003efrom design to readymade\u003c\/em\u003e — quietly places his practice near Duchampian territory, where existing forms, found functions, and acts of selection become part of the design process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvitation, institutional graphic system, and object proposition collapse into a portable printed support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53571582263634,"sku":"CASTIGLIONI-POMPIDOU-INV-1985","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Castiglioni_Achille._Show_invite_Achille_Castiglioni_du_design_au_ready-made_._1985_front.jpg?v=1779776680"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/centre-georges-pompidou.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}