{"title":"Jean-Paul Albinet","description":"\u003cp\u003eJean-Paul Albinet (born 1953, France) is a French artist whose practice from the late 1970s onwards engaged with the visual languages of mass communication, advertising and urban information systems. Working with barcodes, logos, signage and commercial graphics, Albinet treated the codes and formats of everyday life as both subject matter and formal material, producing works in which the systems used to classify and distribute objects became the objects themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1981, Albinet co-founded UNTEL with Philippe Cazal and Alain Snyers. The group operated as a collective and as a kind of agency, producing editions, interventions and printed matter that circulated through the same channels as the commercial material they appropriated. UNTEL’s practice was closely aligned with the broader French context of institutional critique and conceptual art that emerged in the 1980s, and intersected with the work of artists including Philippe Thomas and his agency \u003cem\u003eles ready-made appartiennent à tout le monde®\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbinet’s individual work developed in parallel, using barcodes as a recurring motif: not as decoration but as a functional code whose meaning is produced by a reading system rather than by the image itself. Invitations, editions and printed matter produced in connection with his practice document a sustained engagement with the conditions under which objects are identified, valued and exchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jean-paul-albinet-invitation-soiree-paris-1988","title":"JEAN-PAUL ALBINET — Invitation for a soirée. Paris, 30 September 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eParis, 30 September 1988. 15 × 15 cm closed; translucent outer sheet 15 × 30 cm unfolded. Printed translucent paper folded around a separate barcode card. Numbered 9\/75 in pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. Light age toning, minor handling and faint surface marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for an evening held on 30 September 1988 at 13 rue Simon-Dereure, Paris. The invitation is constructed in two layers: a 15 × 30 cm sheet of translucent paper carries the date, address and RSVP details and folds around a separate 15 × 15 cm card printed with an enlarged barcode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe practical information is therefore not placed beside the image but directly over it. The barcode remains visible beneath the translucent wrapper; when opened, the administrative text separates from the coded image it temporarily covers. The verso identifies the object as a limited edition after an original by Jean-Paul Albinet, “composed of the first data from cause to effect.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbinet had co-founded UNTEL with Philippe Cazal and Alain Snyers, working with materials and communication systems drawn from everyday urban life. By the late 1980s, logos, advertising graphics and barcodes were becoming central to his work; the date of this invitation places it directly within that transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA social invitation, a numbered edition and a printed code occupy the same object. The translucent wrapper does not conceal the card beneath it; it changes how the information is read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely backed and tracked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean-Paul Albinet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54006181691730,"sku":"ALBINET-UNTEL-INV-1988","price":225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Albinet_Jean_Paul._Show_invite._1988.jpg?v=1784113190"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/jean-paul-albinet.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}