ERNI BÄR FAN ACTION MINNEAPOLIS 2013

[Erni Bär]

Many people here at IUOMA had received mysterious postcards from Grigori Antonin depicting certain stages of his recent Minneapolis action (Aktionskunst - Wikipedia doesn't give us an English definition. Why I dunno. Therefore a link to some pictures of Aktionskunst, action art, that paved the way for performance and happening: http://www.google.de/search?q=aktionskunst&hl=de&tbm=isch&a...). I hadn't got any of those cards myself but yesterday (March 16th, 2013) I found this among the two other mail art gems in my letterbox:

Solidly wrapped and of some weight. Even German customs couldn't resist putting their green sticker on announcing this had not to be examined.

HUCH! What does this indicate now? Will there follow a Californian Aktion? I'd be more'n delighted, Grigori! Open! Open and let's have a look at this mail art crown jewel, folks. I'll show you every bit of it and shall abstain from further commenting because the contents speaks for itself:

21 cm x 20, 5 cm x 0,12 cm / 250 grams / hardcover / bound.

What a HIT! The only way to deal with mail art like this is:

Ganz besonders herzlichen Dank, Grigori!

[Erni Bär]

Right you are, Angie. A genuine "Aktion" (German for action) in the sense my art hero # three, Joseph Beuys, used the term. He was a master of that special art form but Grigori doesn't have to hide with what he did - NOT AT ALL! Plug in

[Angie & Snooky]

Oh wow!

[Erni Bär]

I wonder whether that's the one Grigori used himself during his Fan Club Aktion.

[Neil Gordon]

ErniBarChiC!

[Erni Bär]

IUOMA member Dustin Hamby, Austin TX, received one from him

[Neil Gordon]

SPECTACULAR GRIGORI! LOVE THE WHITE JUMP SUIT! VERY "DEVO"_ GREAT HOMAGE TO DHARMADADA ERNI
OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

[Erni Bär]

You didn't receive any of those cards, Mary? Send something to Grigori first, I'd suggest. This one he used to send out in 2012:

[Mary J. Grellner]

So very cool....wish he would send me something too!

[Erni Bär]

Yes Mim. It looks as if the photos were printed on very fine silk. The yellowishness (cobalt yellow?) gives them a certain mystical abstraction in my view.

[Mim Golub Scalin]

That is a wonderful book! What a gift.