{"title":"Günter Brus","description":"\u003cp\u003eGünter Brus (born 1938, Ardning, Austria) is an Austrian artist and one of the founding figures of Viennese Actionism, the radical performance and body art movement that emerged in Vienna in the early 1960s alongside Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Brus’s early actions involved extreme bodily self-inscription, self-mutilation, and transgressive public performance, positioning the body as both medium and site of social and political rupture. His 1968 action \u003cem\u003eKunst und Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e at the University of Vienna resulted in criminal prosecution and his subsequent exile from Austria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1970s onward, Brus shifted his practice toward drawing, writing, and what he termed \u003cem\u003eBild-Dichtungen\u003c\/em\u003e (image-poems): densely worked sheets combining text and image in a hallucinatory, allegorical register that extended the psychological intensity of his performance work into a more intimate, institutionally absorbed form. His graphic work draws on Rococo, Expressionism, and Symbolism while maintaining the bodily distortion and psychological extremity of his earlier practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrus has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Kunsthaus Graz. He was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to Brus’s practice and institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"brus-dessins-autrichiens-pompidou-inv-1987","title":"Günter Brus — Dessins Autrichiens dans les Collections du Cabinet d’Art Graphique — Exhibition Invitation Card, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eCentre Georges Pompidou, Paris\u003cbr\u003e15 × 21 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on matte card stock\u003cbr\u003eVernissage: Tuesday 31 March 1987, 18h–20h\u003cbr\u003eExhibition: 31 March – 7 June 1987, Salle d’Art Graphique, 4e étage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitutional invitation produced for the 1987 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition \u003cem\u003eDessins Autrichiens dans les collections du Cabinet d’Art Graphique\u003c\/em\u003e, presented under the direction of Bernard Ceysson, Directeur du Musée National d’Art Moderne. The card reproduces \u003cem\u003eLa vengeance de Watteau\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) by Günter Brus, whose graphic practice extended the psychological intensity and bodily distortion of Viennese Actionism into drawing and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike the violent performative works Brus became known for in the 1960s, \u003cem\u003eLa vengeance de Watteau\u003c\/em\u003e moves toward hallucination, allegory, and unstable figuration — folding Rococo reference, expressionist mark-making, and bodily transformation into a floating theatrical space. By the late 1980s, Brus had shifted from scandal-associated performance into a more institutionally absorbed position, making this Pompidou document an interesting transitional object: avant-garde residue entering museum structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strong piece of late-1980s European exhibition ephemera with unusually vivid front imagery and clean typographic design to reverse. Scarcer than standard commercial postcards due to its invitation-only institutional function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light surface wear, faint age toning, minor corner softening and small marks consistent with handling and storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752190402898,"sku":"BRUS-POMPIDOU-INV-1987","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Brus_Gunter._Show_invite_Austrian_drawings_in_the_collection_of_the_graphic_arts_cabinet_._1987.jpg?v=1781506126"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/gunter-brus.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}