{"title":"Information Fiction Publicité","description":"\u003cp\u003eInformation Fiction Publicité (IFP) was a French artist collective founded in 1984 by Jean-Louis Boissier, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, and others working at the intersection of art, media theory, and communication systems. A key associated figure was Philippe Thomas, whose practice — centred on the transfer of authorship, the fabrication of identity, and the use of advertising formats as artistic propositions — ran in close parallel with IFP’s concerns. Thomas’s agency \u003cem\u003ereadymades belong to everyone®\u003c\/em\u003e (founded 1987) extended these ideas into a sustained institutional and commercial fiction, in which collectors became the named authors of works they acquired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOperating in Paris throughout the 1980s, IFP produced exhibitions, publications, and events that examined the mechanisms of information, advertising, and public language — treating publicity and media not as neutral channels but as ideological structures to be analysed and subverted. The collective engaged with questions of how images, texts, and systems of distribution shape meaning and desire, and appeared in galleries, art centres, and publications across France and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Rare holds printed matter and exhibition ephemera related to Information Fiction Publicité and its associated figures, including invitation cards and documents from their exhibitions and projects.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alibis-centre-pompidou-inv-1984","title":"Alibis — Exhibition Invitation Card, Centre Georges Pompidou \/ Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, 1984","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation \/ fold-out card\u003cbr\u003eCentre Georges Pompidou \/ Musée national d’art moderne, Paris\u003cbr\u003e16 × 21 cm folded \/ 32 × 21 cm unfolded\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on semi-gloss card stock\u003cbr\u003eJuly–September 1984\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal folded invitation card for \u003cem\u003eAlibis\u003c\/em\u003e, the important 1984 group exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou featuring Richard Artschwager, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Luciano Fabro, Gérard Garouste, Pierre Klossowski, Robert Longo, Carlo-Maria Mariani, Cindy Sherman, Jan Vercruysse, Didier Vermeiren, and William Wegman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation was produced during the same period that Philippe Thomas and Information Fiction Publicité were beginning to test the instability between exhibition, authorship, advertising, and administrative display structures in France. While Thomas is not directly named in the exhibition, the object sits very close to that emerging landscape: institutional graphics, image circulation, and exhibition identity treated as transferable surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exterior reproduces a film-studio backlot image dominated by an artificial sky façade — a fitting image for an exhibition titled \u003cem\u003eAlibis\u003c\/em\u003e. Inside, the invitation opens into a blue cloud field carrying the artist list and vernissage information. The graphic structure feels unusually cinematic and self-aware for an institutional invitation of the period, hovering somewhere between exhibition support, publicity device, and conceptual image-object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurviving examples are uncommon outside institutional archives and specialist ephemera collections, particularly in complete unfolded condition. Material from this early-1980s Pompidou moment — especially tied to post-conceptual and Pictures Generation-adjacent artists — has become increasingly difficult to locate as printed exhibition matter from the period is absorbed into archives and private collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light surface wear, faint handling marks, minor age toning, and soft corner wear consistent with period exhibition ephemera. The marks remain part of the record: evidence of circulation, storage, handling, and transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed support from an important moment of institutional transition: photography, simulation, staging, sculpture, fiction, and identity beginning to circulate through the museum as interchangeable formats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53718079799634,"sku":"THOMAS-POMPIDOU-INV-1984","price":240.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Thomas_Phillippe_Centre_Georges_Pompidou_1984.jpg?v=1781173754"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/information-fiction-publicite.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}