URS LÜTHI: Autoportraits, Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1985

Folded exhibition invitation, Galerie Stadler, 51 Rue de Seine, Paris, 1985. Offset-printed on folded card stock; 15.5 × 22.5 cm folded / 31 × 22.5 cm unfolded. Photographs: Roland Gretler. Printed by Imp. Union Paris. Vernissage: Thursday 25 April 1985, 18:00–20:00; exhibition: 25 April–25 May 1985.

Condition: good vintage condition; light age toning, handling wear, scattered surface marks and gentle edge wear consistent with age and use. Fold remains strong.

The invitation announces two new bodies of work: Autoportraits de la série des Grands Sentiments and Autoportraits de la série des Croquis Téléphoniques. It incorporates a short text by Rodolphe Stadler alongside colour reproductions of two paintings — both acrylic on canvas, 200 × 150 cm — positioning the object somewhere between invitation, exhibition guide and small publication.

By the mid-1980s, Lüthi had established an international reputation through photography, performance and conceptual self-portraiture. The works presented here register a shift toward painting without abandoning the central question that had animated his practice since the late 1960s: the self as image, construction and repeated proposition. Rather than recording identity, these paintings continue its staging through another medium.

Galerie Stadler occupied a singular position within post-war Paris, presenting artists whose practices crossed Conceptual Art, performance, Minimalism and post-war European experimentation. This invitation belongs to that wider infrastructure of circulation: a printed support produced to announce an exhibition, retained beyond its immediate function.

The larger folded format, extended text and colour reproductions place it closer to an ephemeral exhibition publication than a conventional private-view announcement.

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