hello,
What I am doing for the 2 shows here at the Lyon College Library and the
Morning Star Coffee house is having the work in two micro galleries... I am
building them 18"W x 24"L x 12"T.... the front will be open so people can look
into the gallery walls and a skylight so they can also look down on the
walls... the gallery will hold about 4 or 5 pieces... I will rotate the work
over the course of the Spring semester, Summer session, and Fall semester of
next year. This is for the "Beuys will be Beuys" show. The other show running
during the same time period "Contents: Objects, Piles, and Boxes" is an outdoor
plateform... approx 24" x 36".... completely open to the elements at the Lyon
College library garden... The show is for 3D work.... It will also be a
rotating show with 4 or 5 works each week...
The college webmaster is going to set up a site for each show as a form of
documentation and a hardcopy catalogue and CD will be sent to all participants
by early next spring/summer.
I am working on a Show entitled "The Telephone Mail Art Show" and I will put
each piece in a plastic bag and tack one piece per telephone poles in the local
community... I have local high school and college students who are going to
help with "hanging" that show... but not ready to advertise for mail art yet...
If your interested in the 2 shows I am calling for and aren't familiar with
Joseph Beuys there is a bunch of good stuff on the web... Also because I have
been out of the network for a number of years I am also using these shows to
reconnect with other mail artists... so I will respond to your submission with
work... While I enjoy being in shows and sponsoring my own the fun for me was
the exchange with other artists for the joy of anticipating something new and
wonderful in the mail box....
take care and keep mailing,
John Chiaromonte
250 Lilly St.
Batesville, Arkansas, 72501
USA
PS... I am humbled by some of the artists who have sent work to me. As long
as some of you have been networking and your place in the history of mail
art... thank you! Tks DragonFly for the new website....
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In one display of mailart, I put the 3D pieces and larger pieces on
museum pedistals along a wall space, and hung the smaller pieces from the wall
above the pedistals. ( I was allowed only one long wall for display). To hang
the pieces, I punched a small hole (with 1/16th punch) in one corner, tied
clear fishing line through the hole, and suspended them from clear push-pins
placed higher up on the wall. This way , the people viewing could hold the
pieces and turn them around to see both sides. I felt it was important for the
exhibit to be "touchable" by the viewers.
At the independent arts festival in Belgium a couple of years ago, Guido
Vermeulen had a fantastic display of mailart. He had several methods of
showing. Primarily he had folding screen-like frames standing along the gallery
with the mailart suspended in plastic page protectors, attatched together in
vertical columns. (they filled the space of where the screens would be.) This
way you could also see both sides, you could walk "through" the exhibit between
the columns of plastic pages. I think he probably built the wooden frames
himself. It was very effective. There were a lot of pieces in his show, too
many to hang. There was also a tablewith 3D pieces on them and a basket with
postcards that anyone could sift through.
Pati B.
-----Original Message-----
From: tanyabemis
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 3:23 am
Subject: (",) Mailart Exhibition Suggestions?
Would anyone care to share their experience regarding displaying
pieces
of mailart for exhibitions? I'd like to know how others have done it.
What suggestions and tips might you have to offer?
Thanks!
Tanya
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