Festival de Fort Boyard: Dream Machines (Exhibition Poster, Signed)

Paris, 1967. Fold-lines from mailing and some offsetting, with postmarks to verso. Archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame with UV plexiglass (28.75 x 23 inches).. Screenprint to heavy paper (26.75 x 21 inches). One of seven posters designed by Gianni Bertini and Henri Chopin to promote their absurd—and wholly fictitious—Fort Boyard arts festival; with a programme of avant-garde public art from the likes of Brion Gysin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Mimmo Rotella, and Gil Wolman purportedly installed on a 19th century island fortress off the coast of Rochefort, a five hour drive west of Paris. This poster, announcing an exaggerated version of one of Gysin's dream machines—three meters in diameter, to host up to 18 spectators—featuring a striking Mec-Art design from Bertini; SIGNED by the artist in pencil to lower margin, with brief inscription.