Dienstag, 18. Mai 2010

No. 550 - arriving mail art "hook" from Hook (Germany)


No. 550 - arriving mail art "hook" from Hook (Germany) - a silhouetted stencil portrait of Bismarck from a street artist called Hook. Thank you very much.

No. 549 - arriving mail art "heroic" from Renee Bouws (Netherlands)


No. 549 - arriving mail art "heroic" from Renee Bouws (Netherlands) - a big sized print-out with a portrait of Bismarck. Thank you very much.

... return to sender ...


... another card came back ...

No. 546 - No. 548 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)






No. 546 - No. 548 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - three more collages from Heinz, one without any valid postage stamp, another refering to the exhibition in Weimar. Thank you very much.

Montag, 17. Mai 2010

No. 545 - arriving mail art from Tom Johnson (USA)


No. 545 - arriving mail art from Tom Johnson (USA) - Tom has used several old advertsing material concerning Otto von Bismarck and decorated an envelope with it, inside more original stuff, as well as a Carte de Visite photo of Bismarck. Thank you very much.
see his blog: http://snowballbelly.blogspot.com/

No. 544 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Matt Ferranto (USA)


No. 544 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Matt Ferranto (USA) - Matt has modified the pot with a warship called Bismarck and wrote "we're gonna sink the Bismark we're". It is the 9th submission of the modified conceptual pot by Takako Saito (which can be seen here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-138-arriving-mail-art-from-takako.html). Thank you very much.

No. 543 - arriving mail art from Jaromir Svozilik (Norway)


No. 543 - arriving mail art from Jaromir Svozilik (Norway) - inside an envelope a funny drawing with a Bismarck Helmet a fork and a sausage. Thank you very much.
see his page: www.svozilik.com

No. 542 - arriving mail art from Nadine Niemelä (Finland)


No. 542 - arriving mail art from Nadine Niemelä (Finland) - a decorated envelope with a Bismarck postage stamp on it. Thank you very much.

Sonntag, 16. Mai 2010

No. 541 - arriving mail art "Otto am rechten Rand" from Markus Steffen (Switzerland)

No. 541 - arriving mail art "Otto am rechten Rand" from Markus Steffen (Switzerland) - a drawing on the envelope with Bismarck on the very right edge. Thank you very much.

No. 540 - arriving mail art "Otto" from Servane Morel (Belgium)

No. 540 - arriving mail art "Otto" from Servane Morel (Belgium) - another nice colourful portrait combined collages and hand drawings. Thank you very much.
Servane has a mail art call about the seven world antique wonders: http://merveillesdumondemailart.blogspot.com/

No. 539 - arriving mail art "Bismarck in Weimar" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)


No. 539 - arriving mail art "Bismarck in Weimar" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - Angela made a collage out of the flyer of the I. Bazonnale exhibition in Weimar where you can see some Bismarck Mail Art till the end of June. We had some fun there. Thank you very much.

No. 535 - No. 538 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)







No. 535 - No. 538 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - in the last week 4 of Heinz cards arrived to me. One of them again without any valid postage stamp - the one with the Mona Lisa Bismarck transformation. No. 538 is called "not everbody wants to be an angel"; No. 536 is called "One day my Mr. Right will come along..."; No. 535 is called "Otto is leaving the town", it came with a real little bell on it. Thank you very much.

No. 534 - arriving mail art "Bilderrätsel" from Heike Sackmann (Germany)


No. 534 - arriving mail art "Bilderrätsel" from Heike Sackmann (Germany) - Heike has drawn a rebus on the name of Bismarck. Thank you very much.

No. 533 - arriving mail art "Bismarck ... biss Mark ..." from Uli Grohmann (Germany)


No. 533 - arriving mail art "Bismarck ... biss Mark ..." from Uli Grohmann (Germany) - Uli made a wordpun on the name of Bismarck. Thank you very much.

... return to sender ...


the card for Via Lewandowski came back to me

Montag, 10. Mai 2010

... and the final hanging, which I did myself ...



... arriving to Weimar ...

... waiting and waiting and waiting, nothing happened the first day ...

Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010

... I will be back next week ...

... I'm on the way to Weimar to install the acrylic plates ...

Dienstag, 4. Mai 2010

... Mail Art Lust for Bazonnale in Weimar (Germany)









Here you got an impression of the four acrylic plates with the mail art collage I will show in Weimar on the the exhibition Bazonnale from 7th of May till 31th of June as a kind of preview of the mail art collection about Bismarck. total messure of all letters about 1.5 x 5 Meters.
Hopefully it will be hanged up that everybody can walk around each letter. backsides are some more mail art to be seen.

Montag, 3. Mai 2010

No. 532 - arriving mail art "Die gute alte staubige Zeit" from Josef Karl (Germany)



how it looked before sending

No. 532 - arriving mail art "Die gute alte staubige Zeit" from Josef Karl (Germany) - Josef used a canvas frame but the backside of it for his assemblage - behind all the dust you can see several stuff like a polaroid of the artist during a performance (call for Bissmark), an old passport, letter fragment etc. Josef has sent me a photo before he has sent it, without all the dust around. Thank you very much.

No. 531 - arriving mail art "eine kleine Anekdote" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)



No. 531 - arriving mail art "eine kleine Anekdote" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - another collage from Heinz, Bismarck is pissing into a lake. Thank you very much.