Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Henrik Olesen: Food chain incl. prehistoric animals at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, 22 February–20 April, 2025. More information on the exhibition can be found here.

For decades, Maurizio Nannucci has preserved exhibition invitation cards. The collection comprises both invitations and announcements from artists whose approaches to art are close to his own. Yet many also come from wider circles of artist friends, colleagues, galleries, and museums, allowing a chronology of relationships and information exchanges to emerge. The selection in this volume makes visible how this kind of communication – often conceived by the artists themselves – superimposes the purely informative value of the printed matter with the freedom of artistic expression; evidence of a holistic practice where such cards can become artworks in their own right.

Rayograph is term invented by Man Ray, in which he merged his name with the word “photograph” to describe his particular approach to the technique of making photograms. As old as photography itself, photograms are photographic prints made by placing objects and other elements on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light, without the use of a camera.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Le témoin is a small sculpture Man Ray had made in 1941 and executed again in 1971. It was constructed from a cardboard box that had contained Man Ray’s favourite sweets, Calissons d’Aix. The artist stuck a glass marble inside it: touching the corner of the box causes the eye to flinch as if it were witness to its surroundings.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Gilbert & George have created art together since 1967, when they met at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and decided that their art should be understood as emerging from a single source. Theirs would be, in their words, ‘art for all’, in contrast to what they saw as the overly cerebral and elitist Minimalist and Conceptual work that was dominant at the time.

Gilbert & George have created art together since 1967, when they met at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and decided that their art should be understood as emerging from a single source. Theirs would be, in their words, ‘art for all’, in contrast to what they saw as the overly cerebral and elitist Minimalist and Conceptual work that was dominant at the time.