CHARLES ROSS — Point Source / Star Space, John Weber Gallery & Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, 1977

John Weber Gallery (420 West Broadway) and Susan Caldwell Gallery (383 West Broadway), New York, 1977. Original mailed exhibition postcard, 15.25 × 10.25 cm. Addressed to Hermann Kern, Kunstraum München, Nikolaistraße 15, Munich. New York meter mark dated 17 March 1977.

Issued for Charles Ross’s two-gallery presentation Point Source / Star Space, 23 March – 16 April 1977. Opening reception: Thursday 24 March, 6–9 pm.

The recto does the work in one sharp graphic gesture: star field, yellow diagonal band, a central point-source, and the paired gallery credits below. The reverse keeps the object inside the distribution system that produced it — typed label, New York meter mark, and delivery to Kunstraum München. Hermann Kern was a key figure at Kunstraum München from the early 1970s and later became director of Haus der Kunst.

Seen now, it reads as more than an invitation. It is also a small record of how conceptual and post-minimal work circulated: gallery to kunstverein, New York to Munich, announcement as network document. The addressed verso gives the card an added charge, placing Ross’s cosmological abstractions back inside the practical infrastructure of the art world.

Condition: Very good. Light age toning, minor surface wear, soft handling marks, and slight creasing consistent with mailing and storage. Original period item.