Jazzándaluz is an offspring of the International Festival of Music, Theatre and Dance of Priego de Córdoba, which has been around for more than 75 years. It is an event where the best musicians and bands of Spain get together. The organizers call it a “commitment to quality culture made in our country”.
Since 2019 an exhibition of mail art, curated by Manuel Molina González and José Luis Campal from Córdoba, forms part of the festival. Campal characterizes arte postal as “conceptual and idealistic” and draws parallels with the experimental character of avant-garde jazz music.
The illustration shows the festival poster and Gerald Jatzek’s postcard which combines the beauty of the Alhambra and a contemporary trumpet in a jigsaw that can never be solved, because it changes with every interaction between tradition and improvisation.
Interventions
Postdata Esperanza Recuerda was a mail art project by the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Universidad de Granada. They were looking for images of public signs with interventions for a collection called senalÉtica.
Illustration 1: Works by Fátima Jiménez Puertas (Spain), Rebecca Choate (Spain), Simon Warren (Great Britain), Leonor Kierzberg (Argentina), Tofu (USA), Ramaulart, Gianni Ramacciotti (Italy), Gerald Jatzek (Austria, bottom row, second from the left) Patri Díez (Spain), Ivan Albalate (Spain)
Illustration 2: A great collection of stamps designed by the well-known mail artist Maya López Muro.
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