Thierry Tillier: Mail Art bleibt rebellisch Der Limbus, auf Deutsch die Vorhölle, war laut katholischer Lehre lange Zeit der Ort, an dem sich die Seelen ungetauft gestorbener Kinder befanden. Sie waren in einem “Zustand der Gottesferne, ohne die Qualen der Hölle”, so das Bistum Essen. 2007 schaffte Papst Benedikt XVI. diesen limbus puerorum kurzerhand ab und erklärteContinue reading “Kunst in ständiger Bewegung”
Tag Archives: Belgium
Art from two Countries
Not all things gone smoothly for a time. That’s why we have been offline for some weeks. We are back with some great examples of mail art that we received in October:
Political Art
Words against system’s headaches/ Words for new utopia is the title of an exhibition in Namur. The show was curated by Laurent Wilmet and Anne Gilis for the the Belgian educational movement CEPAG. They state: “Indeed, words are not innocent. Words are not neutral, they are socially situated and criticism of their use, of theirContinue reading “Political Art”
Lots of Things
Jean-Philippe Gini from Belgium sent a bunch of small things, prints, readymades, stamps, and photocopies from mail art that he has collected. It all arrived in an envelope made from magazine pages, and it wasn’t all that easy to find the least destructive method to open it. But now it’s all here on the table.
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 Gini 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).
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