Here are three some details of an add&pass project that was started by Keith S. Chambers (USA). The other participants are Margaret Jeddry (Canada), Gerald Jatzek (Austria), Luís Filipe Gomes (Portugal) and Gabriele Müller (Austria).
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Bild-Gedicht
Zwischen 3. und 16. August 2021 fand die erste Mail-Art-Ausstellung auf Naxos statt. Beim Resist Mail Art Festival auf der griechischen Insel konnte man nicht nur Bilder anschauen, man konnte bei Workshops auch selbst tätig werden. Abgerundet wurde das Ganze durch Konzerte mit Conteh Dauda, Laurel Kortinas, Thanassis Koutsonas und MC Yinka. Gabriele und GeraldContinue reading “Bild-Gedicht”
Calligraphy from France
Richard Baudet from Marseille has been active as a mail artist for about 10 years. He sent this wonderful piece of calligraphy & more with stamps from the bureau philatelique. As he states, “this is mailart, not art by mail“ Merci bien!
No Headaches!
This is a very nice confirmation mail from CEPAG in Belgium. They are working on an exhibition with titled Words against system headaches / Words for new utopias. Update 12/2021: The exhibition has been delayed until 2022.
A Great Envelope
Thank you, Sylvia Dubois, for your art and for the fantastic envelope and the photos!
Chaos & More
Three item were sent to Jean-Philippe Giniot (Gilliot) in Belgium. He should have already received them. The title of Gabriele’s watercolor painting that you see on this page is chaos. Gerald added one of his pangolin postcards and a poem about a fantasy animal, surrounded by a drawing (or the other way round, who knows).
Music from Norway
Gunn Nordheim Morstøl sent a very nice letter and and a collage that includes a guitar player. A long time ago, I looked like this. I wish I still had hair that long and full …
Being Illegal
On Refugee Day we want to tell you a story in form of a song. On 27 August 2015 Austrian police discovered a truck along the A4 highway in Austria and found 71 deceased illegal migrants, including eight children. All persons had suffocated within hours of boarding. There were no survivors. Years before, Gerald had writtenContinue reading “Being Illegal”
Mythological Creature
The Chimaera (Χίμαιρα) was an ancient Greek monster. According to mythology it consists of a lion with a goat’s head on its back and a tail in the form of a snake.Similar creatures existed in the beliefs other civilizations as well, e.g. the Indus people and Ancient Egypt. Over time the term chimera has comeContinue reading “Mythological Creature”
An Eye for an Eye
Ojo por ojo, or: an eye for an eye was the theme of a mail call by the Spanish artist Felipe Lamadrid. The exhibition in Cádiz in the autonomous community Andalusia features more than 200 works, among them two colored pencil drawings by Gabriele Müller.
Music in Prison
Love, Freedom, Solidarity is the theme of an exhibition in Carrara. The town in northern Italy is known for its wonderful marble – and its revolutionary traditions since the 1890s. In 1968 Carrara saw the foundation of the International Federation of Anarchists (IFA). Our contribution consists of Gabriele’s watercolor painting and Gerald’s poem about Greek prisoners thatContinue reading “Music in Prison”
From Russia With Stamps
Russia may as well be a synonym for poetry: Pushkin, Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Blok… Not all of them fall into the category great Russian soul. Vladimir Maykovsky, for instance, says in his epitaph for Sergei Esenin who commited suicide in the hotel Angleterre, writing his last poem with his own blood: “…maybe, if thereContinue reading “From Russia With Stamps”
Friendly Feedback
The folks behind the “Send me Your Light” call didn’t just acknowledge our contribution. Anna Krieps sent us a thank-you note in the form of a photo collage about (her?) cosmic dreams. The stamp number indicates that this is her 567th mail art piece in 2021. Now, that’s what you call industrious! A big handContinue reading “Friendly Feedback”
Send in the Dolphins
Send me your light will be the title of an exhibition in Berlin’s Kunstraum Reuter in autumn 2021. The contribution of Gabriele and Gerald is a combination of watercolor & text in the form of a haiku. The work takes the point of sea creatures that are able to dive into the lightless depths ofContinue reading “Send in the Dolphins”
Stamps from the States
We received a couple of his stamps from Thomas Brown. We especially like this one. It has a touch of DADA to it, don’t you think so.
Schubert’s Colors
Coming back to Vienna I found this drawing by Luís Filipe Gomes from Portugal who loves to listen to the music of Franz Schubert. You can see the colors of the Eb major Trio which was first performed in Schubert’s concert in the hall of the Vienna Musikverein on 26 March 1828.
A Palimpsest
A palimpsest is a manuscript page, from which the original text has been scraped or washed off, so that the page could be reused for another document. Gabriele and Gerald used the form for a combination of watercolor and ink with asemic writing; i.e., without semantic content. You can find examples in works of PaulContinue reading “A Palimpsest”
Withered Flowers
Beautiful flowers were the subject of a call for mail art in 2020. The submission address was: Magandang BulaklakRenoca Lobo Art Gallery#84 B – Rincon RoadValenzuela CityPhilippines Since Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers, every artist has painted flowers at some point in his or her career. Therefore, I thought the gallery in the Philippines would receiveContinue reading “Withered Flowers”
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