Rancillac — Pornographie, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1969

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1969

Exhibition invitation card issued for Rancillac's Pornographie, held at Galerie Daniel Templon, 58 rue Bonaparte, Paris, from 22 April to 3 May 1969. Marked strictement sur invitation.

Printed on thick white coated stock, 16.6 × 13.5 cm. Black illustration to recto — a high-contrast photographic image reduced to printed signal. Black text to verso: gallery name, address, exhibition title, dates, and the controlled-access notice that defined the terms of entry.

More than a simple announcement, the card preserves the threshold where exhibition, scandal, and circulation briefly met. The exhibition survives here in one of its secondary forms: announced, compressed, and transferred to paper.

Produced at an early and charged moment in the history of Galerie Daniel Templon, the card carries the atmosphere of late-1960s Paris in a particularly concise way. It is both invitation and filter — a small paper document through which the exhibition was framed, restricted, and made public only in part. What remains is not just an advertisement for a show, but a retained access piece: a document of entry, discretion, provocation, and display.

Format: Single invitation card
Size: 16.6 × 13.5 cm
Print: Black on white coated stock
Condition: Very good — light handling wear, faint surface marking, soft age toning, and a pressure crease to the lower edge consistent with prior storage or clipping

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