Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog (450)

I would like to list the names of the dear friends whose art-messages were handed to me at the post office today by a blonde woman in a white jumper.…

I already have the envelope from Valentina Cozzi! Thank You, Valentina.

Mail Art by Silvia Dubois. The post office delivered an envelope to me from Paal in Belgium. Thank you, Sil!!!…

An envelope came in the mail from Francis Lammé, who lives in Culemborg in the Netherlands.

Inside is an exquisite message on several sheets of paper, only some of which fit in these photos. Also discovered inside are miniature pictures in the same black and white style. Thank You, Francis!!!…

I received some lovely mail art from Carien van Hest from the Nederlands, and discovered that I hadn't yet posted a photo of a previous message from Carien! I apologise. So, in August, I received this hand-painted envelope in the mail:

Sometimes mail-art artists send each other materials for further use. Dear friends, if You use old photos and postcards in Your collages, I can send You something - old photos of Soviet film actors and stuff like that. Of course, my offer is open to those participants who make collages using "everyday rubbish" in the spirit of Kurt Schwitters and Robert Rauschenberg.

Thank You! Some great Mail Art from Kiki (Osaka, Japan) and Jimmy Connors (Berlin, Germany) came in the mail. I'm glad. 

I've received great Mail Art from Laurent Wilmet (Namur, Belgium) and Michelangelo Mayo (San Jose, CA, USA). Michelangelo was in the UK at the time and managed to send the envelope to Moscow (mail reaches us from the UK). Thank You!!! …

On my birthday, I received many wonderful congratulations, for which I am very grateful. On this day, my parents gathered and the three of us went to an organic restaurant. The owner of the restaurant has a large farm in the countryside, where he has cows, orchards, a bakery and a cheese factory, and so on. Own products grown in good conditions are used for…

Mail Art came from Mail_Art_Martha. Thank You!!!

The postcard with perforations came in the post from Germany. There is text written along the edge of the postcard and the back is blank. A fine art-piece!

So, 1 000 000 days late, I'm posting photos of Mail Art that came to me a long time ago. Please forgive me for the delay. Zack, I am grateful to You. 

Took the subway downtown on Monday and attended the opening of Moscow artist Alexander Savelyev`s exhibition.

Alexander Savelyev once saw in an abandoned 17th century church of the frescoes that had fallen of had fallen from a height and were lying in a heap on the floor. Large pieces of fresco painting on which fragments of…

I received the Mail Art from Hélène LAGACHE. Thank You! I'm glad.

The exhibition "History of Russian Mail Art" opened in Moscow in August (Gallery Davydkovo, Moscow, Kremenchugskaya str., 22).

Exhibition curators: Yuri Gik (Gikjuri Rus), Alyona Borschagovska (Olga Seregina).

I visited the exhibition on the 17th of August, I am posting my photos. There are many objects of mail-art in the halls, the accompanying texts by Yuri Gik tell in detail about this phenomenon.…

I got Mail Art from Carien van Hest, Francis Lammé and Sil Dubois. Much obliged, thank You.

Thanks to Vlada Lapteva!

Mail Art from Russia to Russia has become a rarity. Take a look at what little thing I received from Vlada. Work with paints, brush, with barely discernible collage elements.

Dear friends, sending mail from Your countries to Moscow can be very difficult, simply impossible. For example, from Canada and the USA it is impossible to send anything here (from France and UK it is possible). In addition, recent blogging on IUOMA reminds us that we are under more and more pressure from postal rates. So in this hot August, when the city's asphalt is melting, I am offering one-way postage for my collages. From Moscow it is possible to send mail not to all, but to many…