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Allen Ruppersberg and Lionel Bovier about the posters
Allen Ruppersberg’s Honey, I Rearranged The Collection
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Here are some more posters which also function as their own envelope.
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Les Levine
Les Levine: Poster Prayer Rug 1978
Das Poster von Les Levine (1935*) erscheint als Werkankündigung (?) der tatsächlichen Arbeit Prayer Rug[1]. Für seine Arbeit fragt er diverse Künstlerkollegen nach kurzen Gebeten, Wünschen oder Weisheiten, die er anschliessend in einen Teppich weben lassen will. Es entsteht daraus eine Sammlung an 25 Sprüchen von 26 verschiedenen Künstlern[2], die vorläufig auf dem Plakat abgedruckt werden. Auch Les Levine selbst fügt der Sammlung eine Anweisung bei: PIERCE THE HEART WITH A MAGIC DAGGER AND FIND THE DIAMOND. Levine ordnet die Gebete, wie es scheint aleatorisch, und fügt sie in einen fortlaufenden Fliesstext. Während die Gebete selbst in Grossbuchstaben gesetzt sind, sind die Künstlernamen jeweils davon unterschieden in Kleinbuchstaben zu lesen.
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User Beitrag: “Schön und einfach. Die Rückseite hat ihre eigene Geschichte und macht den Druck zum Inhalt.” Sven
Evidence
Testing the limits of materiality, Barry produced this poster for an exhibition that had neither a location nor a date. The address is a post-office box, and the telephone number for the gallery is an answering service with a recorded message describing the “work.” The work was the release, by the artist, of five measured volumes of odorless, colorless, noble gasses into the atmosphere in various locations surrounding Los Angeles, where they would diffuse and expand naturally into infinity.
While documentary photographs were taken of the action of the releases, the only physically tangible evidence of the work would remain the poster, published by the New York art dealer Seth Siegelaub, who stated, “He has done something and it’s definitely changing the world, however infinitesimally. He has put something into the world but you just can’t see it or measure it. Something real but imperceptible.”
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www.moma.org/collection/works/109710
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Marina Abramovic
User Beitrag: “Jedes Mal, wenn ich der Künstlerin Abramovic begegne, bin ich fasziniert. Ich verfolge sie siet ihren Anfängen. Ich finde sie sehr mutig und sie ist wichtig für die Kunst. Ich sage bewusst nicht (Frauen)-Kunst.” Beatrice Haupt
Multifunctional 2
The galeries KARMA INTERNATIONAL and ZERO both created invitation cards / posters which also function as their own envelope.
Marina Abramovic, Ritmo 4, 1974
“Rhythm 4 was performed at the Galleria Diagramma in Milan. In this piece, Abramović kneeled alone and naked in a room with a high-power industrial fan. She approached the fan slowly, attempting to breathe in as much air as possible to push the limits of her lungs. Soon after she lost consciousness.[28]
Abramović’s previous experience in Rhythm 5, when the audience interfered in the performance, led to her devising specific plans so that her loss of consciousness would not interrupt the performance before it was complete. Before the beginning of her performance, Abramović asked the cameraman to focus only on her face, disregarding the fan. This was so the audience would be oblivious to her unconscious state, and therefore unlikely to interfere. Ironically, after several minutes of Abramović’s unconsciousness, the cameraman refused to continue and sent for help.[28] Wikipedia
Point d’ironie: Koo Jeong-A
User comment: “I have chosen an invitation for the exhibition of Koo-Jeong-A (2009)’s work. I found the format and the colours and the blurred shapes intriguing. I had to unfold the document and the surprise and the curiosity remained high (what’s this?). I immediately thought about FRAMING it. I did not know the artist nor the gallery. I find sometimes the invitation for famous artists (eg. Charles Ray, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans etc.) whom I also adore eye-catching, but rather because they produce a feeling of familiarity, like a recognisable friend on meets in the street. But there is less surprise, rather a soft happiness/joy?” Carole Ratsimandresy
Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern
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.