DESSINS ALLEMANDS — Invitation Card, Galerie Bama, Paris, 1975

Galerie Bama, Paris, 1975. Original exhibition invitation card, 15.5 × 9.5 cm. Printed card with handwritten address on verso; addressed but never mailed.

Issued for Dessins Allemands, Galerie Bama, Paris, 19 September – 30 October 1975. Featuring Joseph Beuys, Buthe, Gosewitz, Hödicke, Horn, Polke, Rühm, Ruthenbeck, Schmit, Van Biel, and Voss.

What sharpens this example is the handwritten verso, addressed to G. J. de Rook, Utrecht, Pays-Bas — linking the card to the Dutch experimental poetry and mail-art milieu around the Utrecht-based visual poet and publisher. Prepared for circulation but never sent, the card remains caught between private address and public announcement, turning a functional invitation into a compact object of intention, delay, and historical residue.

It operates both as a surviving fragment from the distribution structure of the exhibition and as a small self-contained work in its own right — a printed artifact in which typography, naming, handling, and withheld movement become the form.

Condition: Very good. Light age toning and minor handling wear consistent with age. Original period item.