print;
artist postcard
- Museum number
- 2018,7009.145
- Title
- Object: Stupidograms
- Description
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Artist postcard: rows of commas placed sideways; invitation to Vernissage at Arthur Köpcke Gallery, Copenhagen, addressed in Dieter Roth's hand to Ben 'Vauthier' (Vautier) in Nice, rubber stamped with ORIGINAL, directional hand, and date, posted from Copenhagen on 18 July 1962. 1962
Photomechanical print
- Production date
- 1962
- Dimensions
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Height: 105 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Dieter Roth's first exhibition with Arthur Köpcke in 1960 was of kinetic objects, which Roth dropped for his second show in favour of gridded typed rows of commas, with small drawings between the lines, explained in a letter to Köpcke of 22 Nov 1961: 'this stuff with the irritations had gotten too much for me i am now giving myself a break am not enthusiastic for real paintings so i will do stupidograms for a while to take it easy.' The date of the exhibition is widely given as 1963, rather than 1962 as shown on the invitation postcard. None sold and the artist, who lived in Iceland, told the gallerist to throw them away. Köpcke refused and later sold them to the collector Hanns Sohm, who released them for publication in 1966 as the last of the Gorgona series. This sending of an invitation to Ben Vautier documents Roth's involvement with the Fluxus group in its early years.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019, Feb 7 – 4 Aug, London, BM, G90, The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard artists' postcards from 1960 to now
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2018,7009.145