DADA | SURRÉALISME | AVANT-GARDES — Un siècle de collage en Belgique — Exhibition Invitation with Insert, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, 1999–2000

Folded exhibition invitation with original insert
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, 127/129 rue Saint-Martin, Paris
14 × 10.5 cm closed / 14 × 21 cm unfolded
Vernissage: Tuesday 30 November 1999, 18h30–20h30
Exhibition: 1 December 1999 – 20 February 2000

Original vernissage invitation for Dada | Surréalisme | Avant-Gardes: Un siècle de collage en Belgique, a survey of a century of Belgian collage and surrealist image practice at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris. Artists represented include René Magritte, Marcel Mariën, Pierre Alechinsky, E.L.T. Mesens, André Stas, and others.

The cover reproduces Marcel Mariën’s Parler de soie (1975): a compressed collage-image combining glamour photography, fragmentation, and surrealist détournement. The invitation retains its original printed insert from the Librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles — a small literary supplement referencing Belgian writers including Amélie Nothomb, Georges Simenon, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Henri Michaux.

A concise example of late-1990s institutional print culture: exhibition announcement, mailing object, and cultural distribution support folded into a single paper form. Complete examples with inserts intact appear infrequently.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear and age toning consistent with period printed ephemera. Insert present and intact.

Shipping and handling included.