Comment
I know nothing about the origin of the material used for this collage. Nor do I know anything about the artist's intention. But I've noticed recently that artists are increasingly enclosing material for collages in their mail in the expectation that the recipients will use it for their own projects. This has several effects. And these can be discussed on several levels (through the lens of art history). I'll just pick out one aspect here: when many artists distribute a lot of material among themselves, works emerge that are linked to other works in terms of the material. In this way, the boundaries of the concept of a work of art are broken down. The amount of material will then also allow us to recognize trends, identify preferences of a time and reflect on why this or that composition is found more often than another. But for me, another aspect is particularly interesting. If I expand the concept of a work of art to this "family of works with parts of the same material sources", then the boundaries of the object become blurred, even though it can be clearly identified. then you can neither buy it in its entirety, nor own it or present it. It is in parts beyond exploitation.
On the other hand, if there were a "Picasso" among the material providers and he was accepted as such by the general public, all of these works would be assigned values that made them tradable due to their quantity, like cigarettes, eggs, flints, seeds - a fascinating idea in the era of the deconstruction of classical money exchange systems.
This is a real beauty from Zack !
Want to support the IUOMA with a financial gift via PayPal?
The money will be used to keep the IUOMA-platform alive. Current donations keep platform online till 1-july-2025. If you want to donate to get IUOMA-publications into archives and museums please mention this with your donation. It will then be used to send some hardcopy books into museums and archives. You can order books yourself too at the IUOMA-Bookshop. That will sponsor the IUOMA as well.
IMPORTANT: please use the friends/family option with donation on Paypal. That makes transaction fee the lowest
This IUOMA platform on NING has no advertisings, so the funding is completely depending on donations.
Bewaren
Bewaren
Bewaren
Bewaren
Bewaren
Bewaren
Bewaren
Bewaren
Bewaren
http://www.iuoma.org
IUOMA on Facebook
http://www.mail-art.de
http://www.mailart.be
Mail-Art on Wikipedia
Bookstore IUOMA
www.fluxus.org
Drawings Ruud Janssen
Mail Art Blog by Jayne
Fluxlist Europe
Privacy Revolution
fluxlist.blogspot.com/
TAM Rubberstamp Archive
MAIL-ART Projects
mail art addresses
Artistampworld
panmodern.com
MIMA-Italy
artistampmuseum
Papersizes Info
IUOMA Logo's
Mail Artists Index
Mailart Adressen
Maries Mailbox Blog
http://mailartarchive.com/
Mail-Interviews
http://www.crosses.net/
Ryosuke Cohen
goopmailart
http://heebeejeebeeland.blogspot.nl/
Your link here? Send me a message.
© 2024 Created by Ruud Janssen. Powered by
You need to be a member of International Union of Mail-Artists to add comments!
Join International Union of Mail-Artists