{"product_id":"sarkis-reserves-sans-retour-capc-bordeaux-invitation-card-1980","title":"Sarkis, \"réserves sans retour\" — CAPC Bordeaux invitation card, 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarkis, \u003cem\u003eRéserves sans retour\u003c\/em\u003e — CAPC Bordeaux invitation card, 1980\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e£40 — shipping and handling included\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA period invitation card for \u003cstrong\u003eSarkis's \u003cem\u003eRéserves sans retour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, issued in relation to the CAPC-organised exhibition at the \u003cstrong\u003eBase sous-marine, Bordeaux\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1980. More than an announcement, the card functions as a small operational document: part invitation, part directional device, part residue of an exhibition staged inside a former German wartime structure not yet fully absorbed into the language of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted card, \u003cstrong\u003e15 × 10.5 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e. Deep red recto with the title set in black script: \u003cstrong\u003eSarkis \"réserves sans retour.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e The verso is given over to information and cartography: \u003cstrong\u003ecapc \/ Entrée n°7 \/ Hangar \/ quai de Bacalan \/ Tél. (56) 44.16.35 \/ Centre d'Arts Contemporains de Bordeaux\u003c\/strong\u003e, alongside a printed street map locating the \u003cstrong\u003eBase sous-marine\u003c\/strong\u003e in relation to CAPC and the city. That map is one of the more compelling features here. It situates the exhibition not simply in a venue, but within an urban and historical field. The card does not just announce a show; it diagrams access to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition belongs to an important moment in Sarkis's trajectory, when questions of memory, displacement, architecture, and historical charge became inseparable from the work itself. It also belongs to an early phase in the cultural reuse of the Bordeaux submarine base, before such conversions became a familiar curatorial model. In that sense, this piece registers a shift: from military infrastructure to exhibition site, from logistics to art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA spare and unusually intelligent piece of French art ephemera, with strong graphic presence and a quietly conceptual use of printed navigation. Scarce. Light wear from age; overall very good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53073498734930,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Sarkis_0001_7a9e9a5e-59f7-4fed-8e2b-271d7dae5248.jpg?v=1774990937","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/sarkis-reserves-sans-retour-capc-bordeaux-invitation-card-1980","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}