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Nikonova, Rea, 1942-

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  • Existence: 1942-

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Osteuropa Mail Art: Im Internationalen Netzwerk [ Mail Art - East Europe within the International Network] / Kornelia Roder, curator ; Schraenen G ; Perneczky G ; Valoch J ; Nikonova R ; Rypson P ; Szombathy B ; Sachse K ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Rehfeldt R ; Todorovic M ; Tot E ; Toth G ; Knizak M ; Segay S ; Deisler G ; Carrion U ; Crane M ; Nannucci M ; Ben ; Johnson R ; Petasz P ; Kostelanetz R ; Vigo EA ; Gutierrez-Marx G ; Huber J ; Baroni V ; Albrecht d ; Bleus G ; Crozier R ; Daligand D ; Diotallevi M ; Duch LF ; Dudek-Durer A ; Fox M ; Frangione N ; Florian MN ; Fricker H ; Galantai G ; Held Jjr ; Janssen R ; Kocman JH ; Kustermann P ; Laszlo JN ; Maggi R ; Mittendorf H ; Padin C ; Petasz P ; Pittore-Eurifico C ; Ruch G ; Welch C ; Bakhchanyan V ; Bogdanovic N ; Beuys J ; Jesch B ; Gottschalk J ; Shimamoto S ; Gajewski H ; Groh K ; Swierkiewicz R ; Durisin I ; Gerlovin V ; Gerlovina R ; Blaine J ; Schulz T., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30076-31472
Scope and Contents This exhibition, curated by Kornelia Roder, provides an extensive review of Mail Art examples and exhibitions in Eastern Europe. It is well documented with respect to visuals and text. Several practitioners have contributed essays. Among them, Guy Schraenen's "Addressee Unknown" is particularly relevant to the field. He writes, "Although Mail Art was influenced by visual and concrete poetry, a language of pictures internationally understood, it was English that became the language of Mail Art right from the start. This is the reason why you speak of Mail Art rather than of Art Postal, Arte Postale, Arte Correo or Postkunst...Postal items to unknown addressees have created a circle of related minds. Such ties are the grandeur of a worldwide movement of communication. But Mail Art is only a facet of it. Mail Art used to be a fashion, and as a fashion it will again disappear. It has, however enriched the international art scene by numerous works which otherwise would have been...
Dates: 1996