Invader – Invasion Guide 07 / New Mosaics of Ravenna

Invasion Guide 07 / New Mosaics of Ravenna, 2017

• Artist: Invader (French, born 1969)
• Medium: Micro mosaic ceramic tiles on hardcover book, in custom plexiglas case
• Dimensions: 23.0 × 19.6 × 2.3 cm (9 × 7 3/4 × 7/8 in)
• Edition: Edition of 25 — each unique
• Nature: Unique work within a limited edition
• Signature: Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse Date: 2017

Invasion Guide 07 / New Mosaics of Ravenna is a unique micro ceramic tile mosaic applied to the cover of a hardcover book, presented in a custom plexiglas case — executed in 2017 by Invader, one of the most iconic, elusive, and widely collected figures in international street art — signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse, from the edition of 25. Each of the 25 copies in this edition bears an entirely individual design, making every single work simultaneously part of a rigorously defined limited edition and a wholly unique object in its own right — a paradox of seriality and singularity entirely characteristic of Invader's most sophisticated and conceptually ambitious collector objects.

Invader occupies a position of absolute singularity in the landscape of international street art and contemporary art more broadly. Since the late 1990s, the anonymous French artist has conducted one of the most sustained, geographically ambitious, and conceptually rigorous artistic projects in the history of public art — installing his signature pixelated ceramic tile mosaics, derived from the visual vocabulary of Space Invaders and the earliest generation of arcade video games, on the walls of cities across every continent, from Paris and London to Tokyo, Los Angeles, Kathmandu, and the bottom of the ocean. Each installation is documented, mapped, and assigned a point value within the artist's own internal scoring system — transforming the entire surface of the urban world into the playing field of a vast, ongoing, and entirely real game of planetary scale. His practice operates simultaneously as street art intervention, conceptual art project, institutional critique, and collector culture phenomenon, producing a body of work of extraordinary range, intellectual depth, and global reach that has attracted the sustained attention of the most discerning collectors, curators, and institutions in the contemporary art world.

The work is in good condition. Full condition report available upon request.

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Is this an original work by Invader? Yes. Invasion Guide 07 / New Mosaics of Ravenna is an authentic unique micro ceramic tile mosaic on hardcover book, executed in 2017 by Invader, signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse, from the edition of 25 — each with an entirely individual design.

What makes this work unique within the edition of 25? Each of the 25 copies in this edition bears an entirely individual mosaic design — making every work simultaneously part of a rigorously defined limited edition and a wholly unique object in its own right. No two works in the edition are identical, giving each numbered copy the dual status of limited edition collectible and unique artwork.

What is the Invasion Guide series? The Invasion Guide series is Invader's celebrated sequence of artist's books documenting his interventions city by city across the world. Each volume functions simultaneously as an artist's book, a documentation of Invader's urban interventions, and — in the unique mosaic editions — as a fully realized sculptural object in which the ceramic tile vocabulary of Invader's street practice is transposed directly onto the surface of the book.

What is the connection to Ravenna? Ravenna is home to some of the greatest masterworks of the Byzantine and early Christian mosaic tradition — fifth and sixth-century works in the Basilica di San Vitale, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, and the Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo that represent the supreme achievement of the mosaic medium in Western art history. In Invasion Guide 07, Invader transposes this ancient tradition into his own micro-ceramic, pixelated visual language — a collision of art historical depth and contemporary arcade aesthetics entirely characteristic of his practice.

What medium was used? The work is executed in micro ceramic mosaic tiles applied to the cover of a hardcover book — a direct transposition of the ceramic tile vocabulary of Invader's street interventions into the intimate, collectible format of the artist's book, presented in a custom plexiglas case.

What is the edition size? The work is from the edition of 25 — each copy bearing an entirely individual design, making this one of the most exclusive and rare editions in Invader's collectible production.

What are the dimensions of the work? 23.0 × 19.6 × 2.3 cm (9 × 7 3/4 × 7/8 in) — presented in custom plexiglas case.

Is the work signed? Yes. The work is signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse.

What is the condition of the work? Good condition. There are thin scuff marks on the surface of the plexiglas case and fine air bubbles at the joints of the case — characteristics entirely consistent with a work of this age and medium, and in no way affecting the integrity or visual impact of the mosaic itself. Full condition report available upon request.