{"title":"Colin de Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eColin de Land (1955–2003) was an American gallerist and one of the most influential figures in the New York art world of the 1980s and 1990s. He founded American Fine Arts, Co. (AFA) in New York in 1986, operating the gallery until his death in 2003. AFA became a central venue for conceptually rigorous, often difficult and deliberately anti-commercial work, presenting artists including John Miller, Andrea Fraser, Tom Burr, Cady Noland, Pruitt–Early and many others whose practices resisted easy assimilation into the mainstream art market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe Land’s approach to running a gallery was itself understood as a form of practice: AFA’s programme was shaped by an acute awareness of the institutional and economic conditions of exhibition-making, and by a commitment to artists whose work engaged critically with those conditions. The gallery maintained close relationships with artist-led and unconventional exhibition contexts internationally, including Fine Rats International in Birmingham, whose \u003cem\u003eUnder Spaghetti Junction\u003c\/em\u003e invitation (1993) was retained in the Colin de Land and Pat Hearn Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat library — formed from the personal and working collections of de Land and Pat Hearn — is now held by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. It records printed material distributed through gallery, artist-led, underground and unconventional channels, and stands as one of the most significant archives of ephemera from this period of American and international contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fine-rats-international-under-spaghetti-junction-roman-signer-birmingham-1993","title":"FINE RATS INTERNATIONAL — Under Spaghetti Junction [Roman Signer et al.]. Birmingham, 1993","description":"\u003cp\u003eGravelly Hill Interchange, Birmingham, 3–4 September 1993, 9 pm–midnight. Exhibition invitation. Published by Fine Rats International. 8 × 10.5 cm. Black-and-yellow offset print on card, retained in a clear plastic pouch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtists: Bram Ångström, Francis Gomila, Zbigniew Karkowski, Colin Pearce, Mark Renn, Roman Signer, Ivan Smith, Barbara Van Loon and Maria Vedder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General toning, minor handling and light edge wear to the invitation. The plastic pouch is rubbed, creased and marked, with small applied labels and adhesive remnants. Dust, loose debris and a dead fly remain trapped inside its lower section. Their point of entry is unknown; the pouch has been retained as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine Rats International developed exhibitions outside conventional gallery spaces across Birmingham and the West Midlands. \u003cem\u003eUnder Spaghetti Junction\u003c\/em\u003e occupied the infrastructure beneath the M6 motorway interchange for two nights in September 1993, presenting temporary installations and actions within a site defined by roads, tunnels, canals and industrial movement. The project was returned to public view in 2015 when its unfinished documentary was included in \u003cem\u003eBirmingham Show\u003c\/em\u003e at Eastside Projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation reduces the event to the information required for entry: two dates, three nocturnal hours, free admission, an approach through Electric Avenue and an A–Z reference. An aerial view identifies the system above. The artist list occupies the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA copy of \u003cem\u003eUnder Spaghetti Junction\u003c\/em\u003e was retained in the Colin de Land and Pat Hearn Library, formed from the personal and working libraries of Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts. Now held by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, the collection records printed material distributed through gallery, artist-led, underground and unconventional channels. The invitation appears in its published-material inventory alongside the wider circulation of the two New York galleries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy has continued to gather material after the exhibition ended. Card, pouch, labels, dust and insect remain held together as one surviving unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fine Rats International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53994229727570,"sku":"FINERATS-SPAGHETTI-INV-1993","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Aanfstrom_Bram._Gomila_Francis._Pearce_Colin._Renn_Mark._Singer_Roman._Smith_Ivan._Van_Loon_Barbara._Vedder_Maria._Show_invite_Under_Spaghetti_Junction_._1993.jpg?v=1783984674"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/colin-de-land.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}