Some of you will have received the stampsheets that were sent into the network ands which had to be sent to Gik Juri in Moscow, Russia. The exhition dates are now set. The location is the famous L-Gallery in downtown Moscow. Dates: October 21st till November 6th 2004. Im am working on the catalogue which will document the history of the archive and lots more. About 44 pages the booklet will become.
Introduction-text in the catalogue:
"At the end of 2003 I was asked if I was interested in doing an exhibition in Moscow connected to my mail-art activities. First I proposed to exhibit the private correspondance between Litsa Spathi and myself. This because it is one of the best visual examples, of how far mail-art can go. But during the e-mail discussions between Gik Juri and me it was chosen to exhibit a selection of the TAM-Rubber Stamp Archive that would be sent in by the Mail-Art network itself.
Because the TAM Rubberstamp Archive is now already quite old and large, a better documentation of it was needed, and so the production of this catalogue started. Some texts were published before and are also available on the internet. Also I included some articles that illustrate the history of rubberstamps in general. The collection of texts and illustrations as you get them here are the first larger publication that documents this collection"
If you still have sheets at your home, the deadline for sending them to Russia was 31st August. If you hurry, they might still be on time for the exhibition, but probably won't get into the catalogue.
Ruud
1 comment:
I'm pretty sure i sent a couple of sheets back to Juri. Weve been exchanging Cd-r's and I think i sent one at least with those. the last one he sent was of the John held visit last year.
Will participants get a booklet? Sounds like being a nice exhibition.
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