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Figura Magica
A 6-ton magnet going around the world: German artist Bodo Berheide (b. 1944) sent a 5 metres long, 90 centimetre wide, and 40 centimetres tall magnet on a ship from Germany and around the world. The...
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Mailevich
It could be a white square on a white surface the way Russian artist Malevich could have painted it, but is the front page of a mail art catalogue. This white front page is an illustration of some of...
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Copy-Left (II)
More pieces from a Copy-Left assembling: Manfred Stirnemann’s Copy-left no. 5 with contributions from Vittore Baroni, Clemente Padin, Guy Bleus, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Robin Crozier, Juppitter-Larsen,...
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Porcelain Shards
Norwid Mechow’s (DDR) contribution to the archive is a little wooden box with two photographs and porcelain shards. Apparently ceramics are still circulating in the mail system. Danish ceramic artist...
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More Pictures of the World’s Smallest Museum
Is this the world’s smallest museum? Mogens Otto Nielsen’s “Pocket Museum” (1984-1985) contains pocket objects from a little more than a hundred artists in the mail art network. Photos: Niels Fabæk.
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Documenting work
A big part of the archive is documentation of mail artists’ work (work that would not fit into an envelope), for example this scan of a letter from Japanese artist Seiei Nishimura. Of course, this kind...
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Liberty for All Rubber Bears
A contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s Send a piece of your nature from Galerico i East Germany (possibly Hildegard Weiss).
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Liberty Smeared
This envelope was found somewhere else in Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive, outside the Pocket Museum.
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Nuclear Family Tragedy
No one saw the bulldozer coming. Gincarlo Martina (Italy): “Trax of Poland” from 1983.
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Paper Bag Art
A scan of a page from Mogens Otto Nielsen’s artist book/assembly “Smile” from 1984.
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From the Stasi Archives
Today, going through my copies from my research in the Stasi Archives in Berlin, I noticed that a small red strip of paper was stuck between the copies. Somehow, the small strip must have found its way...
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New Romanticism
A postcard from German artist Joseph W. Huber (year unknown): A printet collage of an image of factories and a copy of German artist Caspar David Friedrich’s painting of “Two Men Contemplating the...
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Museum Controlled
In Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive, I found this postcard with a picture of the galleries in Kunsten Museum of Modern Art. With a typewriter Nielsen has written “atmosphere controlled” which is...
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