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

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.

The marks remain part of the record: evidence of circulation, storage, handling, and transfer.

Original period item. Shipping and handling included.