{"product_id":"brus-dessins-autrichiens-pompidou-inv-1987","title":"Günter Brus — Dessins Autrichiens dans les Collections du Cabinet d’Art Graphique — Exhibition Invitation Card, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eCentre Georges Pompidou, Paris\u003cbr\u003e15 × 21 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on matte card stock\u003cbr\u003eVernissage: Tuesday 31 March 1987, 18h–20h\u003cbr\u003eExhibition: 31 March – 7 June 1987, Salle d’Art Graphique, 4e étage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitutional invitation produced for the 1987 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition \u003cem\u003eDessins Autrichiens dans les collections du Cabinet d’Art Graphique\u003c\/em\u003e, presented under the direction of Bernard Ceysson, Directeur du Musée National d’Art Moderne. The card reproduces \u003cem\u003eLa vengeance de Watteau\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) by Günter Brus, whose graphic practice extended the psychological intensity and bodily distortion of Viennese Actionism into drawing and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike the violent performative works Brus became known for in the 1960s, \u003cem\u003eLa vengeance de Watteau\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light surface wear, faint age toning, minor corner softening and small marks consistent with handling and storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752190402898,"sku":"BRUS-POMPIDOU-INV-1987","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Brus_Gunter._Show_invite_Austrian_drawings_in_the_collection_of_the_graphic_arts_cabinet_._1987.jpg?v=1781506126","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/brus-dessins-autrichiens-pompidou-inv-1987","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}