art carrée

... the whole artistbooklet ...

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... free copies will be sent out to the participants next days ...

... the booklet can be ordered too, just send me an email ...

... some impressions of the 8th of May ...

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... some impressions of the todays hanging of the mail art exhibition ...

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paper sculptures in the background by Elke Ungerbühler-Havelka

the chaos - not finished yet

... for the entrance of the exhibition ...

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... the art carrées - how they will be exhibited ...

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together with Angela Behrendt (Germany)

together with John M. Bennett (USA)

together with Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg) together with Reiner Langer (Germany) together with Lubomyr Tymkiv (Ukraine) together with Peter Dowker (Canada) together with Servane Morel (Belgium) together with Don E. Boyd (USA)

together with Litsa Spathi (Netherlands)

together with Hong In Young (South Korea)

together with Keith A. Buchholz (USA)

together with Wolfgang Skodd (Germany)

together with Dmitry Babenko (Russia)

together with Ahlrich van Ohlen (Germany)

each of the works were framed inside an acrylic square, fixed with screws

all of these images (except the one from Babenko - it came to late for the printing order) will be inside the bocklet and more

... the art carrée by Dmitry Babenko ...

2010-04-29T04:05:00.000-07:00

unfortunately it arrived after the order of the artist booklet, but at least it arrived. Thank you very much. so all of the returning sendings came back

... today I ordered the artistbooklet of this mail art project ...

2010-04-27T03:15:00.000-07:00

here you can see the cover of the artistbooklet, it will have 36 pages, full colour and with at least one art carrée from every participants inside - full page sized - it will be printed in a limited and numbered edition.

... the art carées by Litsa Spathi ...

2010-04-27T03:12:00.000-07:00

Litsa has sent 4 art carrées, here you see her envelope and two of them - thank you very much

... the advertising booklet is out now ...

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all participants were mentioned here in this advertising text

unfortunately two submissions (from Litsa Spathi and Dmitry Babenko) which are already on its way to me seemed to be lost or in delay - maybe hooked in the islandic ash cloud or whatever -

on monday I have to order the art carrée booklet - I'm really sorry that their pictures can't be printed inside this booklet.

... the renaissance room where the exhibition will take place ...

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...the art carrée by Reiner Langer ...

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Reiner rearranged the photos new and did some extra collaged to it. Thank you very much

... the art carrée by Keith Buchholz ...

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Keith used some detail of my photos and arranged them new and did some handwritings upon it. Thank you very much.

... an additional art carrée by Angela Behrendt ...

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another postal experiment which worked without any problem, Angela used again one of my photo which I have sent to her. thank you very much.

... an additional art carrée from Lubomyr Tymkiv ...

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if you like to see all of the inside, you have to come to the exhibition on 8th of May - thank you very much.

... an additional art carrée envelope from Fraenz Frisch ...

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Fraenz sent in one more envelope, decorated with my photographs in it, because I told him that I will hang the envelopes to the exhibtion as well; he made a little comic drawing of me(?) hanging the letters to a clothesline - thank you very much

... another additional art carrée submission from Angela Behrendt ...

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sent in as a postal experiment without any valid postage stamp - she used one of my photograph of a streetart face on a postal mail box - thank you very much

... an additional art carrée by Angela Behrendt ...

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it is the little photo itself I sent to her, here with a stitched artistamp with a Bismarck portrait on it thank your very much.

... the art carrée by Hong In Young ...

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Hong In Young has sent in two card boards with mosaic in the size 30 x 30 cm, here you can see one of it, she collaged my photos it with cut out numbers. Thank you very much.

.. the art carrée variations from Ahlrich van Ohlen ...

2010-04-13T09:28:00.000-07:00

Ahlrich has sent in three more sets of the art carrées, which he fixed already on card board (here you can see one). He has been staying in Florence and took one of my photograph (center) and did some similar photos - the 8 around. in the other picture you can see his working paper he used in Florence with my 9 photos on it. thank you very much.

... the art carrées by Peter Dowker ...

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Peter has sent in a set of 9 modified art carrés (here you can see 2 of them) in which he used several pictures which are printed out over the other. Thank you very much.

... the art carrée by Fraenz Frisch ...

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Fraenz did a comic drawing on a card board 30x30cm in which he included all of my nine photographs, a very humorous image - it made me laugh. Thank you very much.

... the art carrées by Lubomyr Tymkiv ...

2010-04-07T03:35:00.000-07:00

Lubomyr has sent in 4 works in the size of 30 x 30 cm, here you can see two of them together with the envelope. Unfortunately the customs opened the letter not very carefully and did some damages to the works. Thank you very much.

... the art carrée by Servane Morel arrived ...

2010-03-31T01:49:00.000-07:00

Servane has used from each of the 9 photos a single part and painted this 30 x 30 cm sheet, included some collages ir did some illustration with it. Thank you very much.

... Don E. Boyd's carrées ...

2010-03-30T09:19:00.001-07:00

Don has sent two modified photographs with little drawings on it and he refers to my other mail art call on Otto von Bismarck (see: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/) Thank you very much.

... John M. Bennett's carrées ...

2010-03-30T09:14:00.000-07:00

John M. Bennett has sent two sets of carrées, first he modified the 9 original photographs with his typical calligraphical style, the second set is a big size variation of it. Here you can see three of his works. Thank you very much.

... two more art carrée mosaics ...

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to Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg)

to Dmitry Babenko (Russia)

... ich muss leider draußen bleiben ...

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... an art carrée from Angela Behrendt, which are not in her mosaic choice of the 9 works ...

it says "I have to stay out!" - it is normally a saying that f.ex. dogs are not allowed to got there, here in a funny relation, because it can be read like art or graffitis have to stay out. I will give it nevertheless to the exhibition in the entrance as a kind of motto ...

... photos and modified art carrées next to it by Angela Behrendt ...

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here you can see three of the photos I sent to her (left) and what Angela sent back (right),

she did some wonderful stitchings on textile.

thank you very much.

... the modification from Angela Behrendt came in ...

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... here some impressions of her clever and funny modifications ...

thank you very much

... from Wolfgang Skodd ...

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Wolfgang has sent a complete booklet with his 9 art carrées inside;

thank you very much

unfortunately the envelope and the booklet has been damaged a bit during shipment and came already opened; here reconstructed

... the outgoing art carrées ...

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... the outgoing envelopes ...

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... some more impressions of the old city ...

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... the first modification came already back ...

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here you can see one of the 9 photos I have sent to Ahrlich van Ohlen (left) and his modification of it (right)

On top of this old window of the renaissance age there is an old inscription which says "Alles mitt der Zeit" (all with the time) this was the inspiration for Ahrlich to modify all 9 photos with images from the well-known newspaper called "Die Zeit". A very nice idea and I got the returns so fast I still can't believe. I haven't sent out the original photos, just the digitial versions via email. Thank you very much.

... some impressions from yesterday's photo shooting ...

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... some designs ...

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to Angela Behrendt

to Ahlrich van Ohlen

to Keith Buchholz

to Wolfgang Skodd

every participant will get a set of 9 different photos which were taken in this old part of the city

I will arrange them like mosaics as you can see here in these first designs

the artist can choose one, more or all of them for their inspiration and will send their works back

both, the mosaics and the modified work will be shown in the exhibition as a kind of diptychon

... some photographical impressions about the old city ..

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... Kulturpackt Schweinfurt ...

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I will be part of a cultural happening of Kulturpackt Schweinfurt, an organisation for culture and art in the town Schweinfurt. To reanimate the historical center in Schweinfurt they iniate this happening already the fifth time, where about 40 artists will participate in. art, music, photography, happenings or performances you will see there. homepage of the organisation: http://freenet-homepage.de/nachsommer/pflkla.html some more information about the happening in german: KUNST-KARRÉE 2010 Der Kunst-Tag im Altstadtviertel Samstag, 8. Mai Kunst in Kombination mit Schweinfurts Altstadtgassen zwischen Schrotturm und Stadtmauer - das macht den Reiz des „Kunst-Karrées“ aus, das in diesem Jahr am Samstag, 8. Mai stattfindet. Zum fünften Mal veranstaltet der KulturPackt diesen Kunst-Tag für alle in Galerien, Ateliers, Gassen, Innenhöfen und leerstehenden Gebäuden rund um das kleine Stadtviertel „Zürch“. Kunst drinnen und Kunst draußen: Malerei, Fotografie und Grafik werden in den Innenräumen ausgestellt; in den Gassen, Winkeln und Torbögen sowie an der Stadtmauer sollen Skulpturen und Installationen zu sehen sein. Umrahmt wird die bildende Kunst mit Beteiligung von rund 40 Künstlern von einem Musikprogramm. Der Eintritt ist frei! Wie in den Jahren zuvor erhalten Künstler aus Schweinfurt und der weiteren Umgebung die Gelegenheit, ihre Arbeiten auszustellen. Es wird wieder eine jurierte Vorauswahl geben, um ein hohes Niveau zu gewährleisten. Jede/r Künstler/Künstlerin erhält geeignete Örtlichkeiten, die sich auch zum Live-Arbeiten vor Ort, für eine Performance oder andere Aktionen eignen. Zusätzlich sollen alle ausstellenden Künstler in einem „Kunstkaufhaus“ für eine Woche eine weitere Ausstellungsmöglichkeit erhalten. Fahrt- und Installationskosten werden bis zu einer gewissen Höhe übernommen. Der KulturPackt ruft Maler, Bildhauer, Objektkünstler, Grafiker, Fotografen, Aktionskünstler usw. auf, sich mit aussagekräftigem Material zu bewerben: KulturPackt, Burggasse 2, 97421 Schweinfurt. Tel. 09721/803577, E-Mail: kulturpackt@gmx.de Bewerbungsschluss ist der 6. April 2010. Ein Bewerbungsformular findet sich hier. Von den Künstlern wird erwartet, am Kunst-Karrée (8. Mai) anwesend zu sein (Aufsicht) und für Gespräche zur Verfügung zu stehen.