I’m currently taking part in the 7th International Avilés Mail Art Exhibition: ‘El Origen’ at the Palacio de Valdecarzana.
Exhibition Place: Palacio de Valdecarzana, Calle del Sol, 1. Avilés, Asturias, Spain
Exhibition Date: March 23, 2023 – May 17, 2023
Curated By: Ricardo Fernández
Learn more: https://aviles.es/
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Take a look at my previous artwork for the 5th International Avilés Mail Art Exhibition: ‘La Tierra’.
Here are some photographs of the International Mail Art Exhibition “Chekhov. Theater” that my artwork is being exhibited at the Central District Library named after Chekhov in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Exhibition Date: January 26, 2023 – March 26, 2023
Exhibition Place: Central District Library named after Chekhov, ul. Turku, 11/1, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Curator: Alevtina Grinmiris
Learn more: https://mailartrussia.com/chekhov
I am currently taking part in the International Mail Art Exhibition “Chekhov. Theater” at the Central District Library named after Chekhov in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Chekov is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. It is impossible to imagine modern theater and drama without Chekhov’s name.
This is a project about Chekhov and about the theater.
Exhibition Date: January 26, 2023 – March 26, 2023
Exhibition Place: Central District Library named after Chekhov, ul. Turku, 11/1, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Curator: Alevtina Grinmiris
Learn more: https://mailartrussia.com/chekhov
I’m currently taking part in the International Mail Art Exhibition “Beginning” at the White Sanctum Art Gallery in Bengaluru, India.
Exhibition Period: January 2023
Exhibition Place: White Sanctum Art Gallery and Conservation Centre, 5th Main, 4th Cross, WASA Layout, Doddanekkundi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Curator: BINDU P. V.
Learn more: http://whitesanctum.blogspot.com/
I am happy to announce forthcoming international group exhibition Retrato del Artista Cuando Hoy (Portrait of the artist as a today) which will be held in Mérida, México this winter.
The exhibition consists of about 60 pieces in the form of postcards created by artists from more than 20 countries, who present their creations in the Mail Art system, with free interpretations of the universal theme of self-portraits. The exhibition opens in February 2023 in Mérida, Mexico and curated by Tchello d’Barros. The exact day of the opening will be announced later. Keep an eye out for new posts.
I am currently taking part in #biennale.NO 2022, the biennale that doesn’t take place, with works that don’t exist.
biennale.NO period: From November 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022
I am currently taking part in the International Mail Art Exhibition called “POMO IV” (Postmodern). The exhibition will run from November 01 to November 30, 2022.
Exhibition Date: 01-30 November 2022
Exhibition Place: Selcuk University, Faculty of Fine Arts Art Gallery, Konya, Türkiye
Curator: Doç.Dr./Assoc.Prof. Hikmet Şahin
Learn more: https://www.mailartexhibition.org/po-mo-iv-2022
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Take a look at my previous artworks for the POMO III and POMO II.
Here are some photographs of the IV Happening Babilonia that my artwork is being exhibited at the Babilonia Centro de Documentación in Navarrés, Spain.
Venue: Babilonia Centro de Documentación, C/ Remedio nº 15, Navarrés, Valencia, Spain
Date: May 21, 2022
Learn more: http://edicionesbabilonia.com/
I am currently taking part in the IV Happening Babilonia at the Babilonia Centro de Documentación. The event is part of the festival Navarrés punto y aparte. 2022.
Navarrés punto y aparte is a collaborative art cultural project promoted by the City Council of Navarrés.
Venue: Babilonia Centro de Documentación, C/ Remedio nº 15, Navarrés, Valencia, Spain
Date: May 21, 2022
Learn more: http://edicionesbabilonia.com/ & https://www.facebook.com/navarres.puntoyaparte
A few months ago I took part in Fluxus, International Mail Art Exhibition in the frame of 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS (I wrote about the catalogue in one of my previous posts.). This meeting is a collaboration of the Photography Center of Thessaloniki and the 3rd Workshop of School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, AUTh (Director: Giorgos Tsakiris) with Fluxus Zone Atelier by Giannis Stamenitis.
Born as an idea of confrontation between “academic” and “commercial” art, Fluxus* acquired its own identity and concept, becoming a certain form of creative work. The purpose of Fluxus is to merge in one “stream” various ways of artistic expression and communication means of concrete and electronic music, visual poetry, movement, symbolic gestures. The main principle is absolute spontaneity, arbitrariness, rejection of any restrictions, which was achieved by such forms as an event, happening, performance, decollage, installation, various street actions and performances, anti-theatre.
The meeting included different events:
But COVID-19 had his “own plan”.
Due to the deterioration of the pandemic situation in Greece and the strict conditions imposed on public gatherings, we decided to postpone the event that was scheduled for September 2020, in the context of the 1st International Meeting of the Greek FLUXUS for the autumn of 2021.
– Photography Center of Thessaloniki
At the preparatory stage of the event, electronic catalogues were issued and my works were published there:
1) ‘FLUXUS envelopes’, 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS – 2021, Photography Center of Thessaloniki, publication date: 9 February 2021. p.12.
Link: https://issuu.com/photographycenterthessaloniki/docs/fluxus_envelops
2) ‘2020-21 FLUXUS KAI STA MOYTRA SOU’, catalog of the International Mail Art Exhibition, 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS, publication date: 14 April 2021. pp.74-75
Link: https://issuu.com/photographycenterthessaloniki/docs/fluxus_kai_sta_moytra_sou_mail_art
The second event started on Sunday, August 29, 2021 in the context of the event ‘Livadi of the Ephemeral V’. There was a FLUXUS performance in the field, which include the planting of envelopes from the shipments of FLUXUS mail projects art, along with the planting of 200 onion and garlic seeds, that is, all the participating artists. This was followed by a group cleaning of onions, which symbolized the crying for our bad fate and hanging garlic on the trees for the exorcism of misfortune.
Another event was on Saturday, October 16, 2021:
In celebration of the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys at the MOMus Experimental Arts Center in Porto, some 400 works will be mailed. FLUXUS clothespins with public participation. Then they will “walk” along the beach, meet their spectators and chat with pedestrians on the beach. This event takes place in the context of the “1st International Meeting of the Greek FLUXUS 2020-21” organized by the Photographic Center of Thessaloniki and the 3rd Laboratory of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the AUTh School of Fine Arts, together with the Fluxus Zone Atelier of Yannis Stamenitis and is the continuation of a series of performances, took place in Livadi tou Ephemeros last August, where onions and garlic were planted along with the FLUXUS mailbox folders and symbolically associated with the planting of 7000 acorns in Kassel.
– Photography Center of Thessaloniki
The final event in the frame of the 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS was on Saturday, December 18, 2021. Mail Art met once again with the public of Thessaloniki, on Papamarkou street.
This exhibition was organized in the frame of the exhibition hosted by the art space “ΆΘΩΝΟΣ ART SPACE” (Papamarkou 25, Athonos Square) by Vasilis Karkatselis, with archive works entitled “Works that were posted (mail art)”.
*Read more about Fluxus on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
Read more about the Photography Center of Thessaloniki:
https://www.fkth.gr/en
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