Günter Brus — Dessins Autrichiens dans les Collections du Cabinet d’Art Graphique — Exhibition Invitation Card, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987

Exhibition invitation card
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
15 × 21 cm
Offset print on matte card stock
Vernissage: Tuesday 31 March 1987, 18h–20h
Exhibition: 31 March – 7 June 1987, Salle d’Art Graphique, 4e étage

Institutional invitation produced for the 1987 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition Dessins Autrichiens dans les collections du Cabinet d’Art Graphique, presented under the direction of Bernard Ceysson, Directeur du Musée National d’Art Moderne. The card reproduces La vengeance de Watteau (1983) by Günter Brus, whose graphic practice extended the psychological intensity and bodily distortion of Viennese Actionism into drawing and writing.

Unlike the violent performative works Brus became known for in the 1960s, La vengeance de Watteau moves toward hallucination, allegory, and unstable figuration — folding Rococo reference, expressionist mark-making, and bodily transformation into a floating theatrical space. By the late 1980s, Brus had shifted from scandal-associated performance into a more institutionally absorbed position, making this Pompidou document an interesting transitional object: avant-garde residue entering museum structure.

A strong piece of late-1980s European exhibition ephemera with unusually vivid front imagery and clean typographic design to reverse. Scarcer than standard commercial postcards due to its invitation-only institutional function.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Light surface wear, faint age toning, minor corner softening and small marks consistent with handling and storage.

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