• Anton Corbijn, Still Lives, exhibition opening card recto. Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, 2000. Blue-toned black-and-white photograph: a woman with long dark hair stands in a white dress beside a white picket fence, bare winter trees behind her. A second figure in a matching white dress crouches at her feet, face obscured by dark hair. Atmospheric, gothic mood. Image: Anton Corbijn, Björk, Reykjavik, 1999.
  • Anton Corbijn, Still Lives, exhibition opening card verso. Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, 2000. White card with large bold black sans-serif type: 'Anton / Corbijn / Still Lives'. Opening details below: 'opening 15 . 4 . 2000 17.00 – 19.00 hrs.' Gallery details: Torch, Lauriergracht 94, 1016 RN Amsterdam; Tel 31-20-6260284; Fax 31-20-6238892; open Thurs/Fri/Sat 13.00–18.00 hrs or by appointment. Caption at foot: 'Anton Corbijn, Björk, Reykjavik, 1999, 185 × 125 cm, Ed. 8'. Address block upper left: Nicole Tran B
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Anton Corbijn — Still Lives

Anton Corbijn — Still Lives

£150.00 GBP
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TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam, 2000
Mailed exhibition announcement / circulation object
15 × 21 cm
Offset print on card; photographic image to recto; exhibition details, gallery information, address label, Belgian postal machine marks, and red handling notation to verso
Opening: 15 April 2000, 17.00–19.00 hrs

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear, faint surface marks, minor corner softening, and postal wear consistent with mailing.

Original exhibition announcement for Anton Corbijn’s Still Lives at TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam. The recto reproduces Corbijn’s image of Björk, Reykjavik, 1999, connected to his 33 Still Lives project: a body of staged celebrity portraits made to resemble paparazzi images, film stills, and fragments from imagined documentaries.

This copy was mailed to Nicole Tran Ba Vang at 130 rue Lafayette, Paris. The verso retains its address label, Brussels/Belgian postal markings, and red handling notation. These marks are not incidental. They place the announcement back into circulation: gallery to post, post to artist, image to address, document to retained object.

Corbijn’s image of Björk carries the public face of the card. Tran Ba Vang’s name and address carry its private route. The object survives between exhibition announcement, celebrity image, postal record, and artist-addressed document.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships flat with protective backing.

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