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In the early 1980s the Bern based Galerie Lydia Megert produced multifunctional invitation cards on folded A3 paper. Besides the basic information on when and where the exhibitions would take place, the leaflets also contained pictures of the artists and their artworks as well as biographical overviews and short texts.
The little circles suggest that all the sheets could be punched and collected in a folder (maybe similar to Harald Szeemanns catalogs When Attitudes Become Form, 1969, and documenta 5, 1972). This way, the invitation cards could function as single pages of a potential publication documenting the history of Galerie Lydia Megert.
Andreas Züst, Sprayer
Pictures by Andreas Züst of graffitis by Harald Naegeli, aka Sprayer von Zürich. The show was curated by Mara Züst.
“Andreas Züst (1947–2000) was a photographer, a painter, and an art collector; a social butterfly, a publisher, and a film producer; a bibliophile, a scientist, and a patron of the arts. Beginning in the early 1970s, he documented and photographed Zürich’s art and culture scene, transcending the boundaries between subcultures, high culture, and pop culture. It was with this same broad-minded spirit that he later became a collector and publisher of (art) books.” Source
Sylvie Fleury
Invitation card for Sylvie Fleury’s exhibition at Philomene Magers who opened her first gallery in Köln in 1991. Since 1998, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers run their gallery under the name Sprüth Magers.
Heimo Zobernig
Jelena Martinovic – Dimensional Narratives
Tiere
Maddalena Fragnito de Giorgio
Matthias Gabi
Tal R
Anonymous user comment:”The pencil work design on the back of this card is wonderful – the typography especially. I had no idea who Tal R was but i have just looked him up – he is a Danish artist and his paintings are incredible….a contemporary Fauvist….”
Invitation card for Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Robert Adams
