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69.
Invitation Card.
London: Indica Gallery, nd. (1966). Single white card (30x21cm.), featuring typography in black by Alan Kitching (a gallery location map with no mention of the artists or the exhibition), and a plain die-cut square panel (14x14cm.), designed to be punched through by the user to reveal and frame random views of London’s walls, pavements and building sites.
The show opened on July 16, running through to early August, and featured a ‘presentation’ of work made jointly by Mark Boyle and Joan Hills. Indica, its floor space recently increased in size following the departure of the bookshop to Southampton Row, displayed one of Boyle and Hills’s huge earth on fibreglass pieces in its front window, almost entirely filling it.
In a gallery statement, Boyle stated: “I have tried to cut out of my work any hint of originality, style, superimposed design, wit, elegance or significance. If any of these are to be discovered in the show then the credit belongs to the onlooker.”
Previously best known for their light shows and happenings, Boyle and Hills’s installation was acclaimed by critics at the time and has since been described by art historian Andrew Wilson as “a watershed in their development as artists” (Boyle Family, p.49).
Minor edge wear, o/w about Near Fine, with square card panel intact. The card is illustrated (without the square panel) in David Mellor’s The Sixties Art Scene in London (p.65). Scarce, especially intact.
Price:
£225.00
