{"product_id":"jochen-gerz-le-depot-kulchur-piece-4-galerie-baudoin-lebon-paris-1979","title":"Jochen Gerz — Le Dépôt · Kulchur Pièce, 4 — Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, 1979","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJochen Gerz — \u003cem\u003eLe Dépôt · Kulchur Pièce, 4\u003c\/em\u003e — Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, 1979\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginal exhibition invitation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtist: \u003cstrong\u003eJochen Gerz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWork: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Dépôt · Kulchur Pièce, 4\u003c\/em\u003e, 1979\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVenue: \u003cstrong\u003eGalerie Baudoin Lebon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddress: \u003cstrong\u003e36 rue des Archives, 75004 Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDates: \u003cstrong\u003e7 June – 7 July 1979\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVernissage: \u003cstrong\u003eThursday 7 June 1979\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: \u003cstrong\u003ePrinted invitation card, double-sided\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: \u003cstrong\u003e14 × 9 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaterials: \u003cstrong\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition: \u003cstrong\u003eVery good. Light age wear consistent with date.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal invitation card for Jochen Gerz’s exhibition at Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, June–July 1979. The title corresponds to \u003cem\u003eThe Depot \/ Le Dépôt\u003c\/em\u003e, catalogued by the artist as \u003cem\u003eKulchur Pieces 4\u003c\/em\u003e, 1979 — a large-scale installation in which several tree trunks, sawed into 5-cm-thick planks and painted with photographic opaque, were stacked horizontally on wooden spacers as they would be at a sawmill, so that the outer form of each trunk remained recognisable. A wall text accompanied the work, addressing doubts about artistic production and design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card’s colour is not incidental. The dark burgundy-brown ground matches the photographic opaque applied to the wood — the same material used to suppress the surface of the trunks in the installation. The invitation does not illustrate the work; it shares its pigment. On the recto, white type carries only the artist’s name and the work title. On the verso, the exhibition information runs at the lower edge — opening time, address, telephone, dates — reduced to administrative fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe word “Kulchur” retains Pound’s damaged spelling, recast by Gerz as something stored, processed, and possibly neutralised. Culture as deposit. Exhibition as filing. Art as a proposition lodged inside its own support system. The invitation extends the work’s logic without explaining it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarce. Galerie Baudoin Lebon ephemera from this period is seldom encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53073790304594,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/JochenGerz_0001.jpg?v=1774996315","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/jochen-gerz-le-depot-kulchur-piece-4-galerie-baudoin-lebon-paris-1979","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}