• Original 1979 Dennis Oppenheim exhibition invitation card for Projects 78/79, ARC Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, showing the artist's name in large bold lowercase type alongside the exhibition title, vernissage date Friday 14 December 18–21h, and run dates through 20 January 1980, with a formal invitation line from the Mayor of Paris at the top.
  • Reverse of 1979 Dennis Oppenheim Projects 78/79 invitation card showing a black-and-white photograph of an installation view — a large-scale sculptural structure with angled metal supports, flat platform surfaces, and dramatic directional light casting sharp shadows across the interior space, consistent with Oppenheim's late 1970s architectural and machine-based sculptural environments.
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Dennis Oppenheim — Projects 78/79, ARC Paris, 1979–1980

Dennis Oppenheim — Projects 78/79, ARC Paris, 1979–1980

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Exhibition invitation card
Offset print on folded card stock
16 × 11.5 cm
Original, 1979

Original invitation for Dennis Oppenheim's Projects 78/79 exhibition at ARC Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, opening 14 December 1979 and running through 20 January 1980. The recto reproduces an installation image tied to Oppenheim's late 1970s investigations into architectural intervention, machine structures, and performative sculpture. The reverse carries the exhibition details in a restrained institutional typographic layout characteristic of the period.

By the late 1970s, Dennis Oppenheim had moved from early Conceptual and Land Art gestures toward increasingly theatrical sculptural environments involving light, movement, industrial materials, and spatial disorientation. ARC Paris functioned during this period as an important site for experimental international contemporary art, and invitations such as this operated simultaneously as announcement, administrative document, and portable exhibition residue.

Within a The New Rare context, the object sits close to the shop/object register: retained institutional paper support documenting the circulation of post-conceptual sculpture at the end of the 1970s. The reproduced installation image becomes flattened into print, while the invitation itself survives as a secondary relay mechanism between exhibition, archive, and collection.

Condition: Good vintage condition with light surface wear, soft handling marks, corner wear, and age toning consistent with period ephemera. The marks remain part of the record: evidence of circulation, storage, handling, and transfer.

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