{"title":"Christopher Wool","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristopher Wool (born 1955, Chicago) is an American artist whose work since the mid-1980s has centred on painting, photography, and works on paper that test the limits of language, image, and surface. He is best known for his large-scale enamel text paintings — words stencilled in black capital letters onto white aluminium panels, compressed, fragmented, and interrupted so that language becomes simultaneously readable and obstructed. Works such as \u003cem\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/em\u003e (1988) and \u003cem\u003ePrankster\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1988) established Wool as a central figure in the post-conceptual painting of the late 1980s and early 1990s, working at the intersection of graphic design, punk culture, Concrete Poetry, and the legacy of abstract expressionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWool’s practice engages the materiality of language: letters treated as graphic mass, rhythm, and interruption rather than transparent carriers of meaning. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. A major retrospective was held at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2013. His paintings are held in major public and private collections worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to Wool’s practice and institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wool-prankster-card-1980s","title":"Christopher Wool — Prankster Card, c. late 1980s–early 1990s","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraphic card\u003cbr\u003e15 × 21 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003cbr\u003eBlank verso, unsigned\u003cbr\u003ec. late 1980s–early 1990s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraphic card reproducing Christopher Wool’s \u003cem\u003ePrankster\u003c\/em\u003e stencil work, likely produced in connection with an exhibition, publication, or promotional circulation surrounding his early text-based practice. The fractured black typography aligns with Wool’s late-1980s language works, where words are compressed into image, surface, and obstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe piece can also be loosely situated within a lineage extending from Concrete Poetry and experimental typography into post-minimal and conceptual painting. Language here is treated less as readable text than as physical arrangement: letters become structure, rhythm, interruption, and graphic mass. The word remains legible while simultaneously collapsing into abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe blank reverse suggests the object may have functioned as a tipped-in publication plate, loose catalogue insert, or retained promotional support rather than a standard mailed invitation. Detached from its original system, the card now operates somewhere between reproduction, fragment, and autonomous printed object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light surface wear, soft handling marks, minor creasing and age toning consistent with period printed ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA minor but exact piece of Wool-related ephemera. Language reduced to graphic structure. Paper retained long enough to change status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53751019503954,"sku":"WOOL-UNKNOWN-INV-1988","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Wool_Christopher._Prankster_card_unique_ephemera._Unsigned.jpg?v=1781500582"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/christopher-wool.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}