Dessins Allemands Invitation Card, Galerie Bama, Paris, 1975

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

A concise and unusually charged piece of 1970s exhibition ephemera: part gallery notice, part administrative trace, part suspended communication object. 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.

Seen now, 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. An exhibition object, rediscovered through the logic of the online store.

Condition: Very good; light age toning and minor handling wear consistent with age.
Shipping: Ships flat in a protective sleeve with backing board.