Mario Maffei — Exhibition Invitation Card, Yvon Lambert Paris Project Room, 2005

Exhibition invitation card
Yvon Lambert Paris Project Room, Paris, 2005
10 × 10 cm
Offset print on light card stock
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.

Condition: Very good vintage condition. Light handling wear, faint corner softening, and minor age toning consistent with stored gallery ephemera.

Shipping and handling included.