• r Original 2015 Sarah Lucas exhibition guide for I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, front cover, showing a bright yellow folded card with SARAH LUCAS / BRITISH PAVILION in large bold dark navy serif capitals at the top, below which a white floor plan diagram of the British Pavilion with numbered work positions 1–21 across six rooms and the Portico, and below that TEXT & ARTWORKS: SARAH LUCAS / Translation: Elisabetta Rabajoli / Photographs & Design: Julian Simmons / 56TH INTERNATIONAL
  • nterior spread of 2015 Sarah Lucas exhibition guide for I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, showing the guide fully unfolded to reveal six bilingual text panels on a yellow ground: IT STARTED WITH AN EGG / È INIZIATO CON UN UOVO, SPOTS / POIS, FAGS / BIONDE, CATS / GATTI, each with a black-and-white installation photograph below, and at far right the front cover panel with floor plan and exhibition details.
  • Interior spread of 2015 Sarah Lucas exhibition guide for I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, showing four further bilingual text panels CONCRETE / CONCRETO (CEMENTO) and YELLOW / GIALLO on a yellow ground, alongside a large central black-and-white photograph of Sarah Lucas outdoors in a field, crouching beside a white geometric sculptural form with yellow paint poured over it, and at far right the I SCREAM DADDIO title panel with the complete work checklist by room.
  • Reverse panel of 2015 Sarah Lucas exhibition guide for I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, showing a bright yellow panel with I / SCREAM / DADDIO in large stacked bold white serif capitals at the top, below which GRAN BRETAGNA in smaller caps, then the artist's name and exhibition details spelled vertically in four columns: S–A–R–A–H / L–U–C–A–S / V–E–N–I–C–E / M–M–X–V, and below a complete bilingual English/Italian checklist of all twenty-one works organised by room.
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Sarah Lucas — I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015

Sarah Lucas — I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015

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12 × 21 cm folded / 60 × 21 cm unfolded. Offset lithograph on folded yellow card stock with black-and-white illustrations and exhibition floor plan. Bilingual English/Italian text. Issued by the British Council. Very good vintage condition with light handling wear, minor edge rubbing and gentle surface marks consistent with use at the exhibition.

Exhibition guide issued for Sarah Lucas’s I SCREAM DADDIO at the British Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 9 May – 22 November 2015. Commissioner: Emma Dexter; Initiator: Andrea Rose; Curator: Richard Riley; Deputy Curator: Katrina Schwarz; Exhibition Assistant: Elisabetta Rabajoli. Translation: Elisabetta Rabajoli. Photographs and design: Julian Simmons.

Sarah Lucas’s I SCREAM DADDIO marked one of the defining British Pavilion presentations of the 2010s. The exhibition brought together an ambitious new body of sculptures made specifically for Venice, expanding Lucas’s long-running investigations into sex, humour, mortality, and the absurd poetry of everyday objects. The pavilion was transformed into an environment populated by oversized plaster figures, stuffed nylon sculptures, cast concrete works, and recurring motifs of eggs, furniture, and the body, reaffirming Lucas as one of the most influential figures to emerge from the Young British Artists generation.

Rather than functioning as a conventional invitation, this folded guide was designed as an essential navigation tool. One side presents a complete floor plan identifying each of the twenty-one works by room — from Gold Cup Maradona in the Portico through to Me Bar Stool in Room VI — while the reverse unfolds into a six-panel publication containing newly commissioned texts by Sarah Lucas in English and Italian alongside installation photographs documenting works during production. It occupies an interesting space between exhibition handout, artist publication, and temporary catalogue.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 152-page book, I SCREAM DADDIO, with texts by Sarah Lucas, poems by D.H. Lawrence, and photographs by Julian Simmons (ISBN 978-0-86355-770-5). Sarah Lucas is represented by Sadie Coles HQ, London; Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels; CFA, Berlin; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City.

Objects like this were intended to be picked up, folded into a pocket, and discarded after a visit. Their survival is therefore considerably lower than the accompanying hardcover catalogue, making complete examples increasingly difficult to source a decade after the exhibition. As Venice Biennale ephemera continues to attract institutional and private collectors, pavilion guides for major national presentations have begun to be appreciated as primary documents of significant exhibition history rather than disposable printed matter.

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