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Exhibition Proposal

TitleGold artistamps story

DescriptionÀ) Introduction to the Artistamps worldMail art is art of artist's communication. There is big international society of mail artists – mal art network. Mail art continues line of Neo-DADA (from DADA to conceptualism) by style. Mail art was born in the middle of 1950s. One of “mail art fathers” was American pre-pop-artist Ray Johnson. Exhibitions of mail art are organizing regularly all over the world since 1970s. Totally there were more than 1000 mail art exhibitions.Artistamps art are fake postal stamps drawn by artists. Artistamps art as artist's technique was born inside the mail art network. Artists did artistamps primary for trading with another artists and later for sale. Now artistamps art is independent genre of contemporary art. First exhibition of the artistamps art was in Simon Fraser University (Btitish Columbia, Canada) in 1974. Last exhibition of artistamps art was in Oaxaca Postal Museum (Oaxaca, Mexico) in 2010. Total there were dozens of artistamps art exhibitions in different states.There were published several books about artistamps art: for example, «ARTISTAMPS.Francobolli d'Artista» (2000) by James Felter, founder of artistamps art.

B) Exhibition project detailsArtistamps exhibitions can be of three types.

1. Actual cuts. Artist-organizer declares theme and distributes invitations to artistamps artists. Submitted works are exhibiting, usually without selection.

2. Archive shows. Artist-organizer shows artistamps from his/her archive without selection3. One-man shows. Artist shows his/her artistamps on unique theme.4. Archive selections. Artist-organizer chooses artistamps from his/her archive on some criteria and shows

them.

The fourth type projects are the most complicated, because they require additional skills for artists-organizers and strong archive quality. This is exhibition proposal of this fourth type. These type exhibitions are very rare.

Selection criteria are: - the best works from every artist- if artist is using several techniques of artistamps making (for example, direct and un-direct perforation) or archive has artistamp sheets and artistamps glued on envelope by one artist – then chosen the best works of every type.

Criteria provide the selection of best works from every artistamp artist considering their creative variabilities. We propose to group works on the states and continents to identify style regularities and receive complex representation on the artistamps art as direction of art and its achievements for last 20 years. The majority of proposed artists are masters of genre and famous contemporary artists. We propose to show works by James Felter (Canada), Anna Banana (Canada), John Held Jr. (USA), Peter Netmail (Germany), Ruggero Maggi (Italy), Guy Bleus (Belgium), Gyorgy Galantai (Hungary) and other.

Exhibition project parameters (statistics)

Quantity of artists – 120Presented states (23) – USA, Canada, Sweden, Chili, Austria, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, Finland, Uruguay, Hungary, Australia, Argentina, Serbia, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, RussiaTime range of works (20 years) – 1990-2010Approximate exposition area (for example, A2 plates) – 50 plates (subject to discuss dependent on institution possibilities)Approximate exhibition time – 2 weeks in 2013-2014 (subject to discuss)

Travel and accommodation requirementsTravel (avia-tickets from/to Moscow) and accommodation expenses (hotel during the time of exhibition) are on the account of institution where exhibition will be organized. No any fee from organizer.

Information about organizerGik Juri – artist and exhibition curator/organizer. Specialization – mail art (including artistamps and rubber stamp art), visual poetry, artist's book, performance. Participant of more than 300 mail art exhibitions all over the world since 1994.For more detailed information see file 'Info Gik Juri.doc’

ARGENTINA

Canterel, 1995

Juan Sanchez, 2010

Samuel Montalvetti

AUSTRALIA

Pete Spence, 2004

Pete Spence, 2004

AUSTRIA

Charistos Ansari

BELGIUM

Baudhuin Simon, 2004

Francois Andre, 2004

Geert de Decker, 2003

Geert de Decker, 2005

Guido Vermeulen, 2000

Guido Vermeulen, 1996

Guy Bleus, 2005

Marc Coene, 2004

Luc Fierens, 1989

CANADA

Anna Banana, 2003

Jas Felter, 2001

Diane Bertrand, 1998

Ed Varney, 2007

Ed Varney, 2008

Francine Boulet, 1998

Jas Felter, 2005

Peter Dowker, 2010

RF Cote, 2009

Susan Gold, 2004

Susan Gold, 2006

CHILIE

Paola Satazar, 2004