


“What began in the 1980s as a program for South Bronx teenagers with learning disabilities grew quickly into a successful art collective called Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), whose works are in the collections of major museums. Now it’s composed of four middle-aged men: the brothers Angel Abreu and Jorge Abreu, Rick Savinon and Robert Branch.” Ted Loss in January 2021 in “The Kids of Survival Are Middle-Aged — and Transforming Yet Again” in The New York Times article.
This invitation card comes from the Neapolitan Galleria Raucci/Santamaria (est. 1992) for their show in 2010, here some images. Tim Rollins died in 2017.
Comment by user Thomas Schlup: “Tim Rollins und seine Kids of Survival nehmen alte Drucke und befördern sie in die Gegenwart. Aus der South Bronx an den Fuss des Vesuv. Die Schrift: möglicherweise ‘Aldus’. Die erste Kursive Druckschrift. Aus der Zeit, als die ‘Bembo’ geschnitten wurde, heute noch eine der lesbarsten Schriften überhaupt. Aldus (Manutius) war der Namensgeber für die Firma mit dem ‘PageMaker’, als das Arbeiten am Computer noch Desktop Publishing hiess. Essentiell: das hauchzart durchscheinende Couvert.”
Karma International

Zurich based gallery Karma International was founded by Marina Olsen and Karolina Dankow in 2009. Initially, they send these invitation cards in the form of small, folded posters.
User comment by Jenny Huang: “With artistic design form for information, roughly printed artist’s work behind. It simply displays the balance between elegance of artistic approach and massive printed invitation. Function based.
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Invitation card by Zurich gallery Karma International for the show by Ida Ekblad and Tobias Madison in 2009.
Anonymous user comment: “The ‘non-book’ shape of the fold is intriguing and the graphic layout causes it to open in a dramatic way: first displaying a bold pattern, then revealing a name, finally opening up to a wholly unexpected image – in this case a geographic-dancegraphic hybrid.”
Oliver Ross und Kerim Seiler stellen aus


Weil Oliver es gefunden hat und weil es die Karte noch gibt. Es war sicher eine schöne Ausstellung, ich habe sie nicht gesehen. Den Ausstellungsraum gibt es wohl nicht mehr. Wenn man die Karte dreht, im Kreis immerzu, wird sie meditativ. Auf dem Umschlag ist eine Briefmarke mit einem süssen, nach vorn gebeugten Vögelchen. Ausserdem ist das Adressetikett, mit der Hand geschrieben, das macht Sinn. Jutta Pillen-Kontetzka
Marina Abramovic


User comment: “The card seems to be written on a typewriter. Could be a classic one like Olympus or something like this. I Ask myself where she is, in which room? From where she had the typewriter. What other stuff she did with it?” Daniel Conceicão
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Here are some more posters which also function as their own envelope.
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The galeries KARMA INTERNATIONAL and ZERO both created invitation cards / posters which also function as their own envelope.