{"product_id":"prince-panama-pavilion-venice-postcard-2007","title":"Richard Prince — Panama Pavilion, Venezia, June–July 2007 — Exhibition Postcard","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition postcard\u003cbr\u003ePanama Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venezia\u003cbr\u003e9.5 × 15.2 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003cbr\u003eJune–July 2007\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Gebr. König Postkarten Verlag, Köln\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued alongside Richard Prince’s semi-fictional Panama Pavilion intervention staged during the 2007 Venice Biennale. Rather than representing an official national pavilion, Prince effectively invented one — inserting himself into the language and prestige structure of the Biennale through posters, postcards, books, and promotional material that mimicked the administrative surface of a legitimate state presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gesture operates on several levels. Prince had long claimed, half-seriously, that he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, allowing the fictional pavilion to function as both autobiographical myth and institutional prank. Like much of his work surrounding jokes, cowboys, nurses, and appropriated Americana, the truth-status remains deliberately unstable. The pavilion becomes another authored fiction: part self-invention, part critique of national representation, part branding exercise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eYoung Nurses\u003c\/em\u003e imagery connects the postcard to Prince’s nurse paintings — by 2007 already one of his most recognizable and controversial series. Filtered pulp-paperback fantasies transformed into large-scale paintings oscillating between desire, anonymity, fetish, and reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompared to the larger Panama Pavilion posters, postcards from the project appear significantly less common on the secondary market. They were never the “main” artwork, which paradoxically makes surviving examples more compelling within a contemporary ephemera context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed support for a pavilion that did not officially exist. Institutional parody reduced to postcard scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good vintage condition. Light surface wear and minor handling marks consistent with age and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53757680648530,"sku":"PRINCE-PANAMA-PC-2007","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Prince_Richard_Panama_Pavillion_200701.jpg?v=1781547984","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/prince-panama-pavilion-venice-postcard-2007","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}