{"title":"Gérard Collin-Thiébaut","description":"\u003cp\u003eGérard Collin-Thiébaut (b. 1946) is a French conceptual artist whose practice centres on appropriation, seriality, and the transformation of existing images and printed matter. Working primarily with photography, multiples, and artist books, he has produced work that systematically reframes found imagery — postcards, reproductions, archival photographs — through repetition, displacement, and subtle intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssociated with the French conceptual milieu of the 1970s and 80s, Collin-Thiébaut exhibited widely in France and internationally, with presentations at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and numerous galleries and institutions across Europe. His work engages with questions of authorship, circulation, and the status of the image as both document and object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Rare holds printed matter and exhibition ephemera related to Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, including invitation cards and publications from exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou and other institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"collin-thiebaut-gerard-les-yeux-noirs-niepce-2004","title":"GÉRARD COLLIN-THIÉBAUT — Les Yeux noirs — Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eInvitation issued for Gérard Collin-Thiébaut's exhibition \u003cem\u003eLes Yeux noirs\u003c\/em\u003e at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, opening 22 October 2004 and running to 30 January 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation conceals a veiled photographic portrait behind a dense red cover. The title is distributed across outlined keys resembling an early computer interface, positioning the image between portrait, entry and classified information. Image, title, dates and institutional credits are compressed into a small folded support: the exhibition leaving the museum as a portable unit of information, collection and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollin-Thiébaut's practice has long treated reproduction, copying and classification as artistic operations. From early audiovisual works assembled from existing photographic and drawn material to \u003cem\u003eMes oisivetés\u003c\/em\u003e — an accumulated inventory of postcards, catalogues, prospectuses, tourist guides and other minor objects — he has used the apparently secondary materials of culture to construct another form of historical record. Produced by a museum devoted to photography, the invitation carries that logic into circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffset-printed folded card; red-and-black typographic exterior with photographic image and exhibition details within. 12 × 12 cm; 12 × 24 cm unfolded. Condition: very good; light rubbing, surface scratches and handling marks to the red covers; interior well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musée Nicéphore Niépce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54050607006034,"sku":"COLLINTHIEBAUT-NIEPCE-INV-2004","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Collin-Thiebaut_Gerard._Show_invite_les_yeux_noirs_._2004.jpg?v=1784576059"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/gerard-collin-thiebaut.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}