{"product_id":"virgins-show-family-business-inv-2012","title":"The Virgins Show — Curated by Marilyn Minter — Exhibition Invitation Card, Family Business, New York, 2012","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eFamily Business, New York\u003cbr\u003e16 February 2012\u003cbr\u003e17.5 × 13 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on semi-gloss card stock, double-sided\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvitation card issued for \u003cem\u003eThe Virgins Show\u003c\/em\u003e, curated by Marilyn Minter, at Family Business, New York. Family Business was a short-lived but highly influential exhibition space initiated by Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni in collaboration with Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, operating between artist-run project space, social experiment, storefront institution, and curatorial platform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition presented two groups: \u003cem\u003eThe Virgins\u003c\/em\u003e — Andrew Brischler, Eric Mistretta, David Mramor, Rebecca Ward, and more — and \u003cem\u003eThe Born Again Virgins\u003c\/em\u003e — Patty Chang, Kate Gilmore, Laurel Nakadate, Wangechi Mutu, Mika Rottenberg, and Aida Ruilova. The recto stages a deliberately awkward pseudo-family portrait centred around a microwave appliance; the verso reduces the exhibition to administrative typography: names, date, location, opening hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin the The New Rare object-register, the card functions less as documentation than as retained circulation material from a specific moment in post-2008 New York exhibition culture: provisional, ironic, socially networked, and intentionally unstable in tone. A printed support from a project that treated the exhibition itself as a mutable social form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light surface wear, faint handling marks, minor corner softening, and light age toning consistent with circulated exhibition ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53702135644498,"sku":"FAMILYBUSINESS-VIRGINSSHOW-INV-2012","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Mrischler_Andrew._Mistretta_Eric._Mramor_David._Ward_Rebecca._Show_invite_The_Virgins_Show_Family_Business._2012_front.jpg?v=1781077783","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/virgins-show-family-business-inv-2012","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}