BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, “THESE SCENES”, 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou

In the midst of these suddenly fraught and dangerous times, we have a bit of good news to share today. I am happy to announce the print portfolio by ART & LANGUAGE that we showed in our post of 20 September 2021, published by René Schmitt has been acquired for the French national collection. This does make sense as the Collection of the Musée national d’art moderne has one of the most important BLACK SQUARE paintings by Kasimir Malevitch. Following logic, this group of prints was inspired and informed by the Russian artist; the acquisition then makes perfect sense.

We are proud to have been involved in offering the work to the Print Department through our long-time colleague Jonas Storvse who recognised its importance and singularity from the outset. Through the generosity of the publisher the work has found its way into the permanent collection, where it will also be in good company with the other ART & LANGUAGE works that have been bought over many years. You will remember I refer to them as the Rolling Stones of Conceptual Art, take a moment and look back at our original post where I described the background of these remarkable prints and hand-painted portfolio box. You can see in this post that it is almost a mini exhibition in a box.

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Our previous post about ART & LANGUAGE at Art Basel 2021

René Schmitt, Berlin