{"title":"Eric Bainbridge","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"bainbridge-walker-viewpoints-cat-1986","title":"Eric Bainbridge — Viewpoints — Exhibition Brochure, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1986","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition brochure \/ catalogue\u003cbr\u003eWalker Art Center, Minneapolis\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on folded lightweight stock\u003cbr\u003e1986\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare exhibition brochure produced for Eric Bainbridge as part of the \u003cem\u003eViewpoints\u003c\/em\u003e series at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1986. Features Bainbridge’s early anthropomorphic sculpture \u003cem\u003eHandle\u003c\/em\u003e (1986) on the cover: a fur-covered hybrid form positioned somewhere between cartoon mascot, damaged modernist object, stuffed animal, and post-minimal grotesque.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication includes biography, exhibition history, checklist, and installation documentation from a formative period in Bainbridge’s practice. Produced at a moment when British sculpture was shifting away from strict formalism toward theatricality, absurdity, synthetic materials, bodily humour, and unstable object identities, the brochure now reads as a document of transition between post-minimalism, Neo-Geo-era excess, abject sculpture, and a specifically British strain of awkward anti-monumentality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeen now, the object feels unexpectedly contemporary. Bainbridge’s sculptures anticipate later conversations around mascot aesthetics, failed figuration, plush materiality, emotional infrastructure, low-theory object culture, and the strange psychological register later explored by artists including Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades, and certain post-internet sculptural practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light edge wear, soft creasing, handling marks, and minor surface discoloration consistent with institutional circulation and archive storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA temporary museum support object retained long enough to become sculpture-adjacent again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53726429118802,"sku":"BAINBRIDGE-WALKER-CAT-1986","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bainbridge_Erica._Viewpoints_show_catalogue._1986.jpg?v=1781245892"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/eric-bainbridge.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}