{"title":"Sarkis","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorks by Sarkis — Turkish-French artist working across installation, video, and drawing. Known for his poetic engagement with memory, light, and the archive, Sarkis is a major figure in contemporary European art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sarkis-reserves-sans-retour-capc-bordeaux-invitation-card-1980","title":"Sarkis, \"réserves sans retour\" — CAPC Bordeaux invitation card, 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarkis, \u003cem\u003eRéserves sans retour\u003c\/em\u003e — CAPC Bordeaux invitation card, 1980\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e£40 — shipping and handling included\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA period invitation card for \u003cstrong\u003eSarkis's \u003cem\u003eRéserves sans retour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, issued in relation to the CAPC-organised exhibition at the \u003cstrong\u003eBase sous-marine, Bordeaux\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1980. More than an announcement, the card functions as a small operational document: part invitation, part directional device, part residue of an exhibition staged inside a former German wartime structure not yet fully absorbed into the language of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted card, \u003cstrong\u003e15 × 10.5 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e. Deep red recto with the title set in black script: \u003cstrong\u003eSarkis \"réserves sans retour.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e The verso is given over to information and cartography: \u003cstrong\u003ecapc \/ Entrée n°7 \/ Hangar \/ quai de Bacalan \/ Tél. (56) 44.16.35 \/ Centre d'Arts Contemporains de Bordeaux\u003c\/strong\u003e, alongside a printed street map locating the \u003cstrong\u003eBase sous-marine\u003c\/strong\u003e in relation to CAPC and the city. That map is one of the more compelling features here. It situates the exhibition not simply in a venue, but within an urban and historical field. The card does not just announce a show; it diagrams access to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition belongs to an important moment in Sarkis's trajectory, when questions of memory, displacement, architecture, and historical charge became inseparable from the work itself. It also belongs to an early phase in the cultural reuse of the Bordeaux submarine base, before such conversions became a familiar curatorial model. In that sense, this piece registers a shift: from military infrastructure to exhibition site, from logistics to art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA spare and unusually intelligent piece of French art ephemera, with strong graphic presence and a quietly conceptual use of printed navigation. Scarce. Light wear from age; overall very good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53073498734930,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Sarkis_0001_7a9e9a5e-59f7-4fed-8e2b-271d7dae5248.jpg?v=1774990937"},{"product_id":"sarkis-ma-chambre-de-la-rue-krutenau-ile-san-lazzaro-venice-1990","title":"Sarkis — Ma Chambre de la Rue Krutenau à l'Île San Lazzaro, Venice 1990","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarkis, \u003cem\u003eMa Chambre de la Rue Krutenau à l'Île San Lazzaro\u003c\/em\u003e — invitation card, Venice 1990\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA period invitation card for Sarkis's installation \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMa Chambre de la Rue Krutenau à l'Île San Lazzaro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, presented jointly by \u003cstrong\u003eLes Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eLe Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Magasin\u003c\/strong\u003e, with the collaboration of the A.F.A.A. and the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris. The exhibition was staged at the \u003cstrong\u003eCouvent des Pères Méchitaristes, Île San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice\u003c\/strong\u003e, opening 23 May 1990 and running through 30 September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recto reproduces a photograph of the neon installation — a luminous, biomorphic form suspended against deep black, its teal glow pooling outward. The verso carries the full institutional text in French, including vaporetto departure times from Riva Schiavoni. That logistical detail is characteristic of the work's situation: an installation accessible only by water, on an Armenian monastery island, organised through a relay of French cultural institutions. The card is itself a document of that improbable geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work belongs to a sustained period in Sarkis's practice in which memory, displacement, and the charged specificity of place — particularly sites carrying religious, historical, or linguistic weight — became structural to the installation itself. San Lazzaro, home to the Méchitarist congregation and one of the oldest Armenian cultural centres in Europe, was not incidental to the work. It was the work's condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted card, approximately \u003cstrong\u003e15 × 10.5 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e. Light wear consistent with age; overall very good. 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