Richard Prince: Pre-Appropriation Works, 1973-1974
Exhibition from Saturday July 7 to Saturday September 1, 2012
Opening on Saturday July 7, 2012 from 6 pm to 9 pm
mfc-michèle didier’s first year in Paris comes to an end with a light summer show, but nonetheless exceptional, the exhibition Richard Prince: Pre-Appropriation Works, 1973-1974.
It
is with great pleasure that we invite you to come see Richard Prince’s
early works from Saturday July 7 until Saturday September 1, 2012. The
opening will take place Saturday July 7 from 6 pm to 9 pm.
Richard
Prince, internationally known American artist, particularly famous for
his re-photographed Marlboro’s advertisements and for his series of Nurse paintings, is an expert in appropriation art and probably the artist who counts best America’s fin de siècle.
However,
the focus of the exhibition is put here on the years «before the
appropriation», and more precisely on the years 1973 and 1974. The works
shown at the gallery were collected in the early seventies by Angus
Whyte, Richard Prince’s first art dealer. Etchings, collages,
monoprints, drawings and letters are examples of the techniques the
young Prince has experimented.
On one hand, Flavored Letters,
written in 1974, can be considered as Mail Art, an artistic movement
that many of the artists of this era have practiced; Richard Prince
showed a significant interest in researching the artistic expressions of
his time.
On
the other hand, transfer technique, the intermediate process between
the collected and the distributed image, is recurring in his work,
almost systematic. This clearly announces what appeared later: Richard
Prince’s trademark, appropriation.
These
early researches testify to the artist’s integration in conceptual
concerns of this time and prefigure works that will make Richard Prince
an artist with a remarkable individuality. The exhibition Richard Prince: Pre-Appropriation Works, 1973-1974 enables us to discover the premises of Richard Prince’s art, back to the origin of his creation.
We warmly thank Angus Whyte and David Platzker for their close collaboration in the development of this exhibition.
For more information about the exhibition, please contact us by email info@micheledidier.com or by phone + 33 1 71 97 49 13.
The
gallery will be closed from August 7 to 22, 2012 included. From August
23 to September 1, the gallery will adopt a summer schedule, which means
that it will be open from Thursday to Saturday, from 12 am to 7 pm.
