THRESHOLD AGREEMENT (POSTERS). 1974.

Cardiff: Oriel Gallery/A+L, 1974
Two b/w offset posters both 64 x 5.50cm printed offset litho displaying a reproduction of the Threshold Agreement work and texts relating to it.

The Threshold Agreement was written by Philip Pilkington and David Rushton (of A&L) and  Paul Wood (an A&L associate) and Peter Berry (ex Newport College) in 1974 and displayed it as a unique work in the Cardiff gallery. The title draws upon the trade union/government agreement of the time and the text is a form of agreement or dialogue or perhaps even might be seen as a contract between the four artists to create the exhibition.

The posters were both meant to stand alone as wall works and also as promotional posters for the exhibition but other two copies were displayed alongside the hand-made wall chart (the Threshold Agreement itself) also displaying the negotiations/dialogue between the artists. This is one of the last Art + Language sanctioned works and are unknown in the literature.

The original Threshold Agreement work is still in Rushton’s hands but jointly owned by all the participating artists so is not for sale without their permission. Both posters are folded for storage but these are a rare later document from the final days of the collective. VG apart from the fold lines. “Very few” copies made.

PRICE IS FOR BOTH POSTERS AS A PAIR.