Bernard Aubertin — Le feu de la couleur, Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans, 1994

Exhibition invitation card
Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux
3 July – 20 November 1994
10 × 20.5 cm · Offset print on card stock

Condition: good vintage condition. Light surface rubbing, handling marks, faint age toning, minor edge wear, pencil notation to upper left.

Issued for Le feu de la couleur, an homage to Bernard Aubertin with friends of the ZERO movement. The recto carries the institutional text in red throughout — invitation, dates, address, logo. The verso repeats “Bernard Aubertin” across the entire surface in dense red rows. Name becomes pattern. Artist becomes surface. Announcement becomes typographic monochrome.

Aubertin’s practice centred on red, fire, combustion, and monochrome surfaces. Red was not decorative; it operated as energy and material event. His work sits within the postwar ZERO movement alongside Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker.

A retained exhibition object from the afterlife of ZERO. Shipping included.