Mittwoch, 5. August 2009

No. 72 - arriving mail art "speaking Bismarck" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)



No. 72 - arriving mail art "speaking Bismarck" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - Angela combined here an original graffiti she has found in venice and which she transformed (as always) into an embroidery, instead of some word inside the speech bubble she stitched a little silhouette of Bismarck. She used as well a historical postage stamp with the portrait of Bismarck. Thank you very much.
Angela has a mail art call about Amy Winhouse.

No. 71 - arriving mail art "Der wird in die Geschichte eingeh'n..." from Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg)


No. 71 - arriving mail art "Der wird in die Geschichte eingeh'n..." from Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg) - a funny comic drawing of Otto von Bismarck leaving a little boat while he has his fishing pole over his shoulders. Thank you very much.
see his page: http://www.mailart.lu/

No. 70 - arriving mail art "OTTO" from Denis Charmot (France)


No. 70 - arriving mail art "OTTO" from Denis Charmot (France) - Denis has used a portrait of Bismarck and did some paintings around, as well he sticked some thick silver chromed plastic letters on it. Thank you very much.
see his page: http://denis.charmot.free.fr/

No. 69 - arriving mail art from Thorsten Fuhrmann (Germany)


No. 69 - arriving mail art from Thorsten Fuhrmann (Germany) - in this case I got the postcard already from Thorsten once, I sent it modified back with the Bismarck multiple on it and now he has modified it once more. As far as the Bismarck multiple is still visible I post this mail art here and it will become one of the collection. Thank you very much.

No. 67 & No. 68 - arriving mail art "Otto und der Fisch" & "wem die Stunde schlägt" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)






No. 67 & No. 68 - arriving mail art "Otto und der Fisch" & "wem die Stunde schlägt" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - two more mail art sendings: In No. 67 he used an image of a mail art from Angela Behrendt, the broken hearts. The sending was damaged by the post and had been laminated into a plastic bag. The second one it a copied version of No. 51. Thank you very much.

No. 66 - arriving mail art from Dr. Brignone (Italy)


No. 66 - arriving mail art from Dr. Brignone (Italy) - collaged postcard using a portrait of Otto von Bismarck on the shoulder of someone else. Thank you very much.
see blog: http://creaturesmailartcall.blogspot.com/

Dienstag, 4. August 2009

No. 65 - arriving mail art "This conductor has a face like a Hering" from Peter Dowker (Canada)


No. 65 - arriving mail art "This conductor has a face like a Hering" from Peter Dowker (Canada) - Peter has recycled a postcard he got from Bruno Chiarlone and modified it for my call, he used f.ex. some of the bismarck stamps I have sent to him, but he also "authorized Bruno Chiarlone to act as master of Rollmöpse". That's really funny. Thank you very much.
see his blog where you can find the former status of this mail art as well: http://flipflopmailart.blogspot.com/

No. 64 - arriving mail art from Mailarta (Canada)



No. 64 - arriving mail art from Mailarta (Canada) - a transparent envelope filled with several paper material, as well a nice both sided collage with Bismarck on it. The other material I will post on my other blog. Thank you very much.

No. 63 - arriving mail art "Groeten uit Valkenburg" from Nico van Hoorn (Netherlands)


No. 63 - arriving mail art "Groeten uit Valkenburg" from Nico van Hoorn (Netherlands) - Nico used an historical postcard with a little girl taking a photo, the photocamera can be flipped up and there you can see a portrait of Bismarck. Thank you very much.

No. 60-62 - arriving mail art "Feuer" & "Denkmal für Otto" & "Im Auftrage" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)






No. 60-62 - arriving mail art "Feuer" & "Denkmal für Otto" & "Im Auftrage" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - three more mail art sendings from the most active mail-artist to my call.
No. 60 "Feuer" is a variation with images he took from Raymond Furlotte's mail art (see No. 50) - he stuck matches to it. No. 61 "Denkmal für Otto" is the artistcard I made after a mail art from Litsa Spathi (see my other blog about Andreas Hofer) here he sticked a piece of wood to it and collaged it. No. 62 "Im Auftrage" is a tiny little card board where he fixed an old stamp to it which says "Im Auftrage". Thank you very much.

No. 59 - arriving mail art from Peter Beckmann (Germany)


No. 59 - arriving mail art from Peter Beckmann (Germany) - postacrds with computer worked out portrait of Bismarck while his head is changing into a skull. A kind of memento mori. Thank you very much.

No. 58 - arriving mail art "Ein Spekuliereisen - weit- kurzsichtig" from Uli Grohmann (Germany)


No. 58 - arriving mail art "Ein Spekuliereisen - weit- kurzsichtig" from Uli Grohmann (Germany) - a computer worked out image with silhouettes of Bismarck in the colours black, red and golden, backsides with two portraits inside spectacles, Nostradamus and Bismarck. Thank you very much.

No 57 - arriving mail art from Dmitry Babenko (Russia)


No 57 - arriving mail art from Dmitry Babenko (Russia) - finally portrait No. 2 arrived as well. It has been retained at the customs so it took several weeks to find its way through. The envelope was stamped from the customs. Thank you very much.

Sonntag, 2. August 2009

... artistbooklet No. 3 ...




... handbound artistbooklet No. 3 with 6 multiples inside, including an onelinedrawing, cover individual worked out with paintings and rubberstamps; this time inside as well a set of artistamps ...
... price 10 € plus shipping costs ... ---> sold
... I plan to offer every week an inividual handbound booklet on the subject of Bismarck to raise a bit fund for the mail art project ...
... if you like to buy one of these booklets let me know, first come first served ...

Samstag, 1. August 2009

No. 56 - arriving mail art "Chamäleon ... schlecht getarnt" from Heike Sackmann (Germany)


No. 56 - arriving mail art "Chamäleon ... schlecht getarnt" from Heike Sackmann (Germany) - Heike made an inlay of two different repro artworks - the silhouette of Bismarck was cut out of a repro of Wassily Kandinsky's improvisation 26. Thank you very much.
see her blogs: http://bzw-plus-n.blogspot.com/
http://dernexus.blogspot.com/

No. 55 - arriving mail art "Onkel Bismarck Banana Mailart" from Wolfgang Skodd (Germany)


No. 55 - arriving mail art "Onkel Bismarck Banana Mailart" from Wolfgang Skodd (Germany) - a variation of Onkel Tuca's banana label. On the backside he used one of the banana artistamp I have sent to him some time ago. Thank you very much.
see his page at iuoma: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/WolfgangSkodd

No. 53 & No. 54 arriving mail art "OttoCard" from Lorraine Kwan (Canada)




No. 53 & No. 54 arriving mail art "OttoCard" from Lorraine Kwan (Canada) - digital arranged photos with Bismarck Images. The one is called "whoops, here comes trouble again" the other "the national Geographic Human Genome Project results are in". Thank you very much.

No. 51 & No. 52 - arriving mail art "bismarcking" & "es war einmal ..." from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)




No. 51 & No. 52 - arriving mail art "bismarcking" & "es war einmal ein Rittersmann der hatte was von Otto an" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)- two collaged postcard in which he used again the photo I took from the Bismarck Museum in Bad Kissingen, as well he used again the Bismarckhering (a pickled fish) . Thank you very much.