London, United Kingdom: Jack Wendler Gallery, 1971. 10×14,1 cm. Bifollium.

Announcement card / multiple published in conjunction with the first exhibition at Jack Wendler’s home gallery. The card apparently was the exhibition itself [Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery, 2009] another hallmark of dematerialization in art - a notion abundantly explored by the ‘first generation’ of conceptual artists and famously theoreticized by Lucy Lippard. A rare document from an important venue. Near Fine.

(...) in 1974, Wendler had closed his gallery after three years in business. In its brief life the gallery only sold one work (and that to another exhibiting artist), but its influence can hardly be measured. Back in 1968, while still in New York, Wendler had co-published, with Seth Siegelaub, the celebrated Xerox book, which featured many of the artists who later showed at the Wendler Gallery. The gallery opened with a show of Lawrence Weiner and ended with Mario Merz. In between the programme covered a range of American and European – including British – artists, among them John Baldessari, Douglas Huebler, Marcel Broodthaers, John Murphy and Daniel Buren. [Patricia Bickers, 2010].