• Original 1975 André Stas exhibition brochure, Galerie La Marée, Brussels, front cover showing artist name ANDRE STAS in serif type above a black-and-white collage of a ballerina figure standing atop a geological cross-section diagram with circular holes, offset printed on cream laid paper.
  • Interior spread of 1975 André Stas exhibition brochure, Galerie La Marée, Brussels, showing mock-biographical chronology by Michel Thyrion on left — listing dates from 1949 to 1975 including glue, elections, and clandestinity — and essay text Orage Forêt ou Le jeune Laboureur by Tom Gutt on right, with two collage reproductions including a suitcase labelled Je suis l'idéal rêve and an amphitheatre scene.
  • Reverse of 1975 André Stas exhibition brochure, Galerie La Marée, Brussels, showing exhibition details including dates 19 avril au 8 mai 1975, vernissage 18 avril 1975 à 18h30, gallery address 18 rue Emile Bouilliot Ixelles, and edition note for twenty signed copies on laid paper with supplementary image, signed by André Stas, Tom Gutt, and Michel Thyrion.
  • Separate full-page collage print included with 1975 André Stas exhibition brochure, Galerie La Marée, Brussels, showing a Victorian-era engraved portrait of a bearded man with a landscape scene — rolling hills, trees, and a country house — collaged into the upper half of the face, replacing the forehead and hair with an open pastoral view.
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André Stas — Exhibition Brochure — Galerie La Marée, Brussels, 1975

André Stas — Exhibition Brochure — Galerie La Marée, Brussels, 1975

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Original folded exhibition catalogue / brochure
Offset printed in black on cream laid paper
Galerie La Marée, 18 rue Emile Bouilliot, Ixelles, Brussels
Exhibition dates: 19 April – 8 May 1975; vernissage 18 April 1975, 18h30
Condition: very good vintage condition; light toning, minor handling wear, soft edge and corner wear, faint fold impressions

Published for André Stas’s solo exhibition at Galerie La Marée, Ixelles. The folded multi-page brochure includes collage reproductions, exhibition details, a biographical chronology by Michel Thyrion, and a text by Tom Gutt, Orage Forêt ou Le jeune Laboureur. Accompanied by a separate full-page collage image. Edition note: twenty copies on laid paper with a supplementary image, signed by André Stas, Tom Gutt, and Michel Thyrion.

Stas was a Belgian collagist, writer, and ‘pataphysical figure working within the later Belgian Surrealist field. His images reuse nineteenth-century engravings, portraits, landscapes, and printed fragments, turning inherited visual material into absurd, unstable scenes. The presence of Tom Gutt and Michel Thyrion places this brochure directly inside the post-Magritte Belgian Surrealist network.

Thyrion’s mock-biographical timeline turns the artist’s life into administrative comedy: glue, regulations, elections, posters, and clandestinity replace the usual career chronology. Gutt’s text frames collage as a way of interrupting the ordinary world through cutting, displacement, and black humour.

A small but exact document: exhibition announcement, artist brochure, and ‘pataphysical printed object in one folded support.

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