Tom Sachs — “Painting” (Volume II), Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 2024

14.5 × 21 cm. Offset print on coated card stock, colour recto and black verso. Tom Sachs, Portrait de Dora Maar, 2024. Pastel à la cire aquarellable, polymères synthétiques, peinture et encre sur toile. 81.3 × 63.5 cm (32.01 × 25 in). © Tom Sachs. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac. Very good condition with light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with storage.

Original exhibition invitation card issued by Thaddaeus Ropac for Tom Sachs, “Painting” (Volume II), Paris Marais, 7, rue Debelleyme, Paris, France. Vernissage: samedi 7 septembre 2024, 18h–20h. Exhibition: 7 septembre – 10 octobre 2024. ropac.net.

Sachs’ Painting (Volume II) continued his investigation into painting through the lens of engineering, replication, and his long-standing DIY aesthetic. Rather than reproducing canonical works directly, Sachs meticulously reconstructed famous paintings as hand-made objects, complete with pencilled measurements, annotations, and workshop conventions that expose the mechanics of copying. The reproduced Portrait de Dora Maar becomes less a Picasso than a record of translation, where fabrication, labour, and authorship remain visible on the surface.

This invitation adopts the exhibition’s central image as its primary graphic, allowing the work to circulate beyond the gallery as a printed support. It functions simultaneously as announcement, reproduction, and portable trace of the exhibition. Like much of Sachs’ practice, the card quietly collapses distinctions between original and copy, artwork and instruction, image and object.

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