[Postcards produced for "Paperweights, Postcards, Pictures, Cannibalism", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva]
For many of her exhibitions, Lawler creates little works of art in the form of postcards and mailers that extend her ideas further into the art world’s circulation system. The postcards seen heer promote her series of views inside the bedrooms and boardrooms of art collectors. Playing on the commodity culture of the museum gift shop, Lawler enshrined these images in souvenir paperweights, which she then photographed and reproduced in print. Seen beneath the globe of one such paperweight, works by Robert Longo and Sol LeWitt keep company in a well-appointed sitting room.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Postcards produced for "Paperweights, Postcards, Pictures, Cannibalism", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva]
- Artist: Louise Lawler (American, born Bronxville, New York, 1947)
- Author: Johannes Meinhardt
- Date: 1994
- Medium: Printed postcards with envelope
- Dimensions: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 4 1/8 in. (14.8 × 10.5 cm), each postcard
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 5/16 in. (11.4 × 16.1 cm), envelope - Classification: Ephemera
- Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2014
- Object Number: 2014.679.30a–f
- Rights and Reproduction: © Louise Lawler
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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