{"title":"Charles Simonds","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition ephemera, printed matter, and secondary art-world objects relating to the work of Charles Simonds.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"charles-simonds-the-three-trees-1985","title":"Charles Simonds — The Three Trees, 1985","description":"\u003cp\u003eArchitekturmuseum in Basel, Basel\u003cbr\u003eOriginal mailed exhibition card \/ invitation\u003cbr\u003e15 × 10.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on light card stock, black and white\u003cbr\u003eRecto with paired photographic images; verso with exhibition details, Basel postal stamp, and typed address label to Connaissance des Arts, Paris\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good, with light age toning, minor wear, soft corner friction, and visible signs of postal handling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for Charles Simonds's \u003cem\u003eThe Three Trees\u003c\/em\u003e at the Architekturmuseum in Basel in 1985, this card now reads less as invitation than as displaced support material: an exhibition notice that completed its first function and remained behind as object. The addressed reverse matters. Sent to Connaissance des Arts in Paris, it carries with it a small but precise social geography — museum, postal system, editorial office, archive. A work about passage as much as announcement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe front is equally exact. A modernist building and a stand of trees are placed side by side with almost schematic clarity, as though the exhibition were being reduced to two transferable images: structure and growth, façade and obstruction, institution and outside. In that sense the card behaves like a compact exhibition model. Not the exhibition itself, but one of its delegated surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat relay structure feels close to Simonds, but also to a Collin-Thiébaut-like logic: the artwork not as singular event but as something distributed through reproduction, framing, citation, and reappearance elsewhere. What remains here is not simply promotion, but a small operational fragment of the show's public life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mailed exhibition card with the right kind of double status: image-object and administrative residue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53227350884690,"sku":"CS-3TREES-1985-EC","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Charles_Simonds_0001.jpg?v=1776420618"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/charles-simonds.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}