Samstag, 7. Mai 2011

No. 875 - arriving mail art from "E" (France)









No. 875 - arriving mail art from "E" (France) - he has sent 10 painted and recycled cigarette boxes for the artomat project. The parcel came inside a fabulous painted big size box with some more Bismarck goodies. Thank you very much.
see his blog: http://expositionsingeschaunois.blogspot.com
http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com/

Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011

... Holy Bismarck for the artomat ...

... an idea for the poster ...




finally my portrait relief made out of bridge bars, old and rusty paper clips and iron binders ec. has been finished ... the iron waste came from the public archive and should have been thrown away; so I decided to recycle it in that way


I made the proposal to make a poster out of it, maybe it will be worked out as a poster with repeating patterns. here an idea of it, it is up to the graphic designer now, what will come out ...

... some views into the exhibition in progress ...





Dienstag, 3. Mai 2011

No. 874 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)



No. 874 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)- a parcel with 10 modified cigarette boxes inside for the artomant project.

No. 873 - arriving mail art from Uli Grohmann (Germany)



No. 873 - arriving mail art from Uli Grohmann (Germany) - Uli has made 14 artomat boxes with collages on it. Secretely closed. Two of them were folded by himself, the others are recycled cigarette boxes. Thank you very much.

No. 872 - arriving mail art from "E" (France)



No. 872 - arriving mail art from "E" (France) - he has sent 11 hand painted works for the artomat project inside a painted envelope. Thank you very much.
see his blog: http://expositionsingeschaunois.blogspot.com/

arriving mail art from Siglinde Halbritter (Germany)




arriving mail art from Siglinde Halbritter (Germany) - My sister worked out the labels which will be sticked to my artomat boxes. Thank you very much.

No. 871 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)



No. 871 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - Heinz has sent lots of little images which will be sticked inside the mail art catalogue to make every copy unique. Thank you very much.

arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)





arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has made a self made prototype box for the artomat project, obviously some more are in progress. Thank you very much.

Samstag, 30. April 2011

... two artomat boxes from Peter Backes (Germany)



Two artomat boxes from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has used big sized boxes, unfortunately they do not fit to the artomat - too big! - so I suppose I have to change the boxes? But they are secretly closed, locked. Thank you.

Freitag, 29. April 2011

... four more boxes for the artomat ...

No. 870 - arriving postal experiment




this postcard without any vaild postage stamp has been thrown twice into the mailbox, first it came without any stamp on it, the second time two of them and the notice for postal due, but I havn't paid for it.

No. 869 - arriving mail art from Hein W. Lotz (Germany)




No. 869 - arriving mail art from Hein W. Lotz (Germany) - Heinz told me he wants to participate in the artomat project (see below) with this Bismarck like postcard. Thank you very much.

To Heinz: You can recycle your own cigarette boxes if you like, it is up to you, less work for me.

... the first 4 artomat objects ...




these are the first 4 submissions - little Bismarck collages - which I will put inside the artomat and they will be stuffed in recycling boxes like this.

Sonntag, 24. April 2011

... a new furniture for the exhibition has been found ...




Finally I found one of these old cigarette machine (here one from the 1970ies) which will be integrated in the mail art exhibition as an ARTOMAT. I will pick them on thuesday and hopefully it will work fine. I hope I can find some artists who will participate in this interactive project, you can send your multiples in (at least 10) for this ARTOMAT, it must be fit inside a cigarette box. (size ca. 86 x 55 x 22 mm) - your art work can be related to Bismarck (this would be fine) but not necessarily. Each multiple should be signed and addressed, so maybe the buyer could get in contact with you. Each participant of this ARTOMAT project will get a free copy of the mail art catalogue which will be published in May. Yes, I finally got the fundraising for it - that's the good news for easter. Please get in contact with me, if you are interested.

... postal experiment ...


this collage will go out without any valid postage stamp to see whether it will arrive

Dienstag, 22. März 2011

No. 868 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 868 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - Heinz modified a postcard I got some days ago from Angela Behrendt, see below No. 865. He did some extra collages to it. Thank you very much.

Sonntag, 20. März 2011

No. 867 - arriving mail art "Ende gut ... Alles gut?" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)


No. 867 - arriving mail art "Ende gut ... Alles gut?" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - a very late submission from Heinz in his typical collage style. It seems that is just one part of a bigger work. Thank you very much.

Mittwoch, 16. März 2011

No. 866 - arriving mail art from Germaine Robichaud (Canada)




No. 866 - arriving mail art from Germaine Robichaud (Canada) - a postcard wrapped in plastic, some parts are obviously lost during sending, the postage stamp for example. Thank you very much. Germaine has a mail art call on the topic "Cheval bleu".

Freitag, 11. März 2011

No. 865 - arriving mail art from Angela Behrendt (Germany)



No. 865 - arriving mail art from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - a stitched card announcing the upcoming mail art exhibition, which will be opened on 27th of May and will last till the 18th of September 2011. Thank you.

Mittwoch, 9. März 2011

No. 864 - arriving mail art


I posted this card three times, it always came back without cancelation of the faked postage stamp, the last time I brought it to Cologne and posted it once more, it came back with an additional label from the post office, but again without cancelation.