• Baroques 81, ARC Paris 1981, invitation back, blue ground, full artist list in pink type, BAROQUES 81 title
  • Baroques 81, ARC Paris 1981, invitation front, fluorescent pink, BAROQUES 81 title, Choix de Catherine Millet, vernissage details
  • Baroques 81, ARC Paris 1981, programme outside, blue panel, full artist list in pink type, ARC Oct Nov 1981 header
  • Baroques 81, ARC Paris 1981, programme unfolded, fluorescent pink, Jazz and Musique en Théâtre panels, blue header bands —
  • Baroques 81, ARC Paris 1981, typewritten meeting notice, rencontre avec Catherine Millet, 29 octobre 1981, Auditorium
  • Baroques 81, ARC Paris 1981, programme back, fluorescent pink, Poésie blue header, auditorium listings and staff credits
  • Baroques 81, ARC Paris 1981, typewritten meeting notice, rencontre avec Catherine Millet, 29 octobre 1981, Auditorium
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ARC / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

SIGMAR POLKE, FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, MIMMO PALADINO, JULIAN SCHNABEL et al.: Baroques 81 — Invitation, Programme and Insert, ARC / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981

SIGMAR POLKE, FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, MIMMO PALADINO, JULIAN SCHNABEL et al.: Baroques 81 — Invitation, Programme and Insert, ARC / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981

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Three printed paper elements: double-sided exhibition invitation (16 × 11.5 cm), folding ARC programme (16 × 21.5 cm folded; 32 × 21.5 cm unfolded) and separate typewritten meeting notice. ARC / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981. Selection by Catherine Millet.

Condition: good vintage condition; general handling wear, light surface marking, softened corners and wear along the programme’s central fold, with small creases and minor edge losses. The separate meeting notice has original horizontal folds and associated handling wear.

Produced for Baroques 81: les débordements de l’avant-garde internationale, presented at ARC from 1 October to 15 November 1981. The exhibition brought together more than thirty artists, including Jennifer Bartlett, Jon Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Ron Gorchov, Mimmo Paladino, Sigmar Polke, Julian Schnabel, Pat Steir, Bernar Venet and Claude Viallat. The accompanying publication included texts by Catherine Millet and Severo Sarduy.

Organised at a moment when expressive, figurative and historically referential painting was re-entering international contemporary art, Baroques 81 has subsequently been identified as an early institutional presentation of the emerging postmodern condition. Millet’s selection placed European and American practices together under the deliberately expansive idea of “baroque” excess.

The fluorescent pink-and-blue programme also records the wider ARC season: poetry, jazz, film and experimental theatre, with appearances by Édouard Glissant, Robert Pinget, Jacques Dupin and Carles Santos. The separate notice invites recipients to an auditorium meeting with Catherine Millet on 29 October 1981. Together, the three pieces preserve the exhibition not only as an artist list, but as part of a broader institutional programme.

A temporary programme retained as a three-part record. Exhibition, public programme and curatorial encounter remain together.

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