Right on Guido, I have an ongoing photography wall (show?) at a cafe here in St Cloud, MN. I photgraph peole who work there and people who eat there. I put their picture in a frame on the wall for 8 weeks and then on Pete's Wall Of Fame. There are four rows of 9" by 6" laminated photos in two rooms. It is a real people project and there is no statement about me there. On a wall in the framed room there is a small note which gives my tele number if people want to have their picture on the wall. How many people have never had their picture on a wall in their life. I guess there are about 125 pics on wall and many have up to 4 people in it. It is like mailart in that it is about something other than me. Great inspiration you are, Guido. --- Guido Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are several ways of showing mail art. > The problem I have with giving more space to any > art work is that it isolates individual creations > and the individual artist; the network idea and the > togetherness gets lost this way. > > Also art becomes nearly religious this way. God is > dead but is replaced by the holy art work of the > holy artist, if you know what I mean. This is the > way art is shown in commercial galleries. All is > based on focus building. I'm not in the mail art > network for this type of behaviour or "seeing" or > "viewing"... I do not intend to worship art or mail > art. > > My ideas and practices have been shaped by the > Kitoko Jungle Magazine exhibitions (something I did > before mail art). We covered all walls with art > works, with nearly no space between the different > art works, the carpeted floor was painted by a > collective of 6 different artists. In order to view > the art on the walls, people had to walk on the > carpet, so on the art. > At the end of this exhibition we destroyed the > carpet, indicating it is allright to destroy art. > We even toyed with the idea of dropping the carpet > fragments from the Atomium in Brussels afterwards > but that never took place because some artists got > scared because of possible legal repercussions. > The only way to get some peace in this art cavern > was to look at the ceiling! > The inspiration of the concept came from how art > was shown in certain Russian museums. > > That it is possible to get "lost" in all the > togetherness of the art is not a problem to me. > I like being lost. Don't play it safe, enjoy a bit > of chaos if you can, embrace it if possible. > The inspiration here comes from outsider art or > "art brut". The outsider artist seldom starts or > develops focus in his/her art. You can read the art > from every point in the art work. I like this very > much. Of course this is "hell" for academic shaped > art and artists. > > > The mail art display at the St Niklaas festival > was like Geert told an attempt to create a "walking > thru' the forest" feeling or even "walking thru' a > water fall" > You can vieuw this on the blog: > http://frioursearthcharter.blogspot.com > > Postal greetings, > > Guido > > > Sztuka Fabryka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the independent arts festival in > Belgium a couple of years ago, Guido > Vermeulen had a fantastic display of mailart. He had > several methods of > showing. Primarily he had folding screen-like frames > standing along the > gallery with the mailart suspended in plastic page > protectors, attatched > together in vertical columns. (they filled the space > of where the screens > would be.) This way you could also see both sides, > you could walk "through" > the exhibit between the columns of plastic pages. I > think he probably built > the wooden frames himself. It was very effective. > There were a lot of pieces > in his show, too many to hang. There was also a > tablewith 3D pieces on them > and a basket with postcards that anyone could sift > through. > > >>> What you saw was material from me I gave to > Guido as I was absolutely > sure it would be great to have his exhibition in > these plastic page > protectors attached to each other with a string in > vertical colums. In other > Mail-Art Festivals in the past I did showed Mail-Art > also this way. Creating > a forest in a small romm where people could walk > through. > > Sztuka Fabryka > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. > Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. > > --------------------------------- > Got a little couch potato? > Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lavonasherarts ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz
