• Ryan McGinley, Vertical Color of Sound, exhibition invitation front. Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, 2014. Square colour photograph: a nude figure leaps from a hay bale into a pale blue dusk sky, arms outstretched, back to camera. Open field and flat horizon behind. Image: Hay Hop, 2014.
  • Ryan McGinley, Vertical Color of Sound, exhibition invitation reverse. Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, 2014. Cream card with 'RYAN McGINLEY' in large serif type and '"Vertical Color of Sound"' below. Opening reception: Tuesday May 13th, 6–9pm. Exhibition dates: 13 May–21 June 2014, Tuesday–Saturday 11am–7pm. Text repeated in Chinese. Galerie Perrotin address: 50 Connaught Road Central, 17th Floor, Hong Kong. Vertical caption strip at right edge notes: Hay Hop, 2014, C-print, 51 1/8 × 72 7/16 inches / 130 × 175
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Ryan McGinley — Vertical Color of Sound

Ryan McGinley — Vertical Color of Sound

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Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, 2014
Exhibition invitation card
Offset colour print on card
17 × 17 cm
Text in English and Chinese
Recto image: Hay Hop, 2014
Verso with exhibition details, opening reception, bilingual text, and Galerie Perrotin Hong Kong address

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear, faint surface marks, minor edge/corner softness, and slight toning to verso consistent with age and storage.

Issued for Ryan McGinley’s Vertical Color of Sound, held at Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, 13 May–21 June 2014. The exhibition marked McGinley’s first solo presentation in China and gathered large-scale photographic works from his summer road-trip series: bodies in motion, open landscapes, artificial freedom, and colour as atmosphere.

The invitation reduces one of those images to a square paper support. A figure suspended above field and sky; exhibition information held on the reverse. The photograph is made portable, folded into the distribution system of the gallery.

By 2014, McGinley’s work had moved from the diaristic energy of downtown New York youth culture toward a more staged and cinematic image-world. The card belongs to that later circulation: Perrotin, Hong Kong, bilingual text, image as announcement, gallery object as residue.

Original period item.
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