Yvon Lambert
Mario Maffei — Exhibition Invitation Card, Yvon Lambert Paris Project Room, 2005
Mario Maffei — Exhibition Invitation Card, Yvon Lambert Paris Project Room, 2005
- Artist
- Mario Maffei
- Issued by
- Yvon Lambert
- Place & year
- Paris, 2005
- Type
- Invitation Card
- Format
- Square invitation card; offset print on light card stock
- Size
- 10 × 10 cm
- Condition
- Very good vintage condition; light handling wear, faint corner softening and minor age toning consistent with stored gallery ephemera.
- Register
- TNR-2026-0180 · 10 June 2026
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Notes
10 September – 20 October 2005
Exhibition invitation card issued for Mario Maffei at Yvon Lambert Paris Project Room. The recto carries a childlike figurative drawing incorporating references to Paris, fascist imagery, fashion graphics, and comic-strip distortion; the verso carries exhibition details and gallery information.
The drawing operates in the awkward, intentionally unstable visual language that circulated around younger figurative and neo-outsider practices during the early 2000s: part notebook image, part graphic mascot, part social caricature. The invitation compresses exhibition, identity, and reproduction into a portable square format designed for mailing and distribution.
Within The New Rare shop/object register, the card functions less as documentation than as retained circulation material. The exhibition survives here as paper residue: artist name, temporary dates, institutional address, and reproduced image held together as a minor administrative object. The mark of the gallery remains intact; the object remains unchanged. Its placement does not.
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