Leben und Arbeit/biography
Rémy Pénard was born in 1944. In the beginning of the 1970s the sculptor started to send out letters to artists with whome he had been friends. He exchanged Mail Art with Hans Werner Kalkmann from 1972 on. Ken Friedman invited him to be part of the “Omaha Flow System” in 1973. In 1976 [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Rémy Pénard
Posted in France, Mail Art, Mail Artist, tagged Rémy Pénard on 23. March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rainer Luck
Posted in Germany, Mail Art, Mail Artist, tagged Rainer Luck on 23. March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
Rainer Luck wurde 1946 in Erfurt geboren. Er war dort als Restaurator tätig und gehörte zu den Organisatoren der inoffiziellen “Atelierbund”-Ausstellungen, wo 1976 zum ersten Mal in der DDR Mail Art aus dem Rehfeldt-Archiv gezeigt wurde. Bei der Ausstellungseröffnung lernte er auch Oskar Manigk kennen. Von nun an nahm er an vielen Mail [...]
Ben Vautier
Posted in France, Mail Art, Mail Artist, tagged Ben Vautier on 19. March 2008 | 3 Comments »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
Ben Vautier was born in Naples in 1935. He came to Nice in 1949, where he opened a gallery shop in 1958. In 1962 he encountered many Fluxus artists at the Festival of Misfits in London, with whom he subsequently collaborated. In 1963 he organized the Fluxus Festival of Total Art in Nice. [...]
Franco Piri Focardi
Posted in Italy, Mail Art, Mail Artist, tagged Franco Piri Focardi on 9. March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
Franco Piri Focardi is a free artist, painter, poet and visual poet, born in Rignano s/Arno in 1953. He edited 17 numbers of “CRASH zine”, a crazy crossing of art and poetry with music. In 1986 he started a first edition of Artistamps “Arte Postale”. He published the first collective anthology “RISULTATI GARANTITI” [...]
Bernd Reichert
Posted in Belgium, Mail Art, Mail Artist, tagged Bernd Reichert on 9. March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
Bernd Reichert was born in Magdeburg, former GDR, in 1960. He lives and works in Belgium, where he produces artist books and object boxes and is editing the sporadic assembling magazine “Bizarre Cities”. Language and writing are particularly important to his art. It is however seldom the meaning of the text, but its [...]
