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[Various Artists]
Wall Show
Los Angeles, USA: Pace Gallery, 1969
9 x 12.5 x 1 cm.
Edition size unknown
Thirty-two years ago today, Roberta Smith published an article in the New York Times titled “Art Invitations As Small Scraps Of History”, writing “Invitations are style statements in a minor key, ancillary artworks of a collective sort. Designed by artists, by graphic designers, by art dealers and museum curators—usually a combination of the above—they are the advance guard for the real thing. Their merit is judged in the very act of reading one’s mail.”
She cites this rare and unusual example of a notable piece of art ephemera produced for a group show.
The 1969 exhibition at Pace Gallery was titled Wall Show and featured works by Lawrence Weiner, Douglas Huebler, Bob Huot, Robert Ryman, Mel Bochner, Sol Lewitt and Bill Bollinger. Each artist was invited to produce a wall work, which would be on view for a single week.
The exhibition invitation consisted of rubber stamped sheetrock, or ‘wall’.
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