Géza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

→ Varney, Ed (Essay: The artistamp anthology sheet)
→ Welch, Chuck (“Crackerjack Kid”)
Artistamps: Canadada 1974. (Shet of b/w stamps)
^MRAUR 5 (Sheet of 36 id. stamps/calligraphy, b/w phc.) n.d. (~1975)
MRAUR 5“ (Sheet of 40 id. stamps in triangular form, colour offset) n.d.
^ Postes MRAUR (Sheet of 24 id. stamps, b/w phc.) n.d.
^MRAUR Postes 5 (Sheet of 30 id. stamps/Hindu , b/w phc., {300}) n.d.
Karl Schwesig Commemorative Stamps (Sheet of non-official stamps
from the Camp at Gurs in Vichy France, 1941-42.) n.d. (1989?)
^Ray Johnson 1927-1995 (Sheet of 20 id. stamps b/w phc., {100}) additional
rubber stamp: Inconsequential is... Fluxpost. 1995
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Literature:
«The word „stamp“ as used in this exhibit refers to what might be termed the
pseudo-postage stamp; that is, analternative stamp opposed to the normal
government publications designed for use in the official or government postal
services of the world. Indeed, several „artists' stamps“ (as opposed to postage
stamps) were issued during government postal strikes. Examples are the Blue Stamp
by Yves Klein of France and the stamps of Allen Jones of England. Others appear
so much like postage stamps that they have traveled through the official services,
mostly undetected. (...)
Many artists, like Carl Daouset in Canada and Dieter Roth in Germany, have
produced Stamp Art as a part of a collection or folio of different works... Donald
Evans makes his stamps for a personal fantasy world. He began in 1957... There are
probably as many reasons why „artists' stamps“ have been created as there are artists
who have created them. But the Curator, and the public, is often more concerned
with the objects than the reasons, and though the reasons differ, the objects do
represent a growing international medium of artistic expression.
The „history“ of Stamp Art is contemporary. FLUXUS, an international
artists' group devoted to research art, explored in the 60s not only the medium of
Mail Art using the government postal systems, but through FLUXPOST Projects
created a para-postal system which from time to time – often with hilarious results –
functioned along with regular geovernment postal services in several nations. (...)»
(J. W. Feltern: Introduction to Artists' Stamps and Stamps Images.
Catalogue, 1976)
«James W. Felter was the first art curator to twig to the phenomena of artists using
the postage stamp format as an art medium. His early research (1969-74) resulted in
the first exhibition of works in this medium at Simon Fraser University's Gallery in
1974. (...) (The search) was assisted by two early mail artists who visited SFU in the
early 70s, Dana → Atchley,.. and Ken → Friedman, who was involved with the
FLUXUS movement. Both spread the world by telling artists to contact Felter at
SFU. The resulting exhibition presented works by 35 artists and 7 artist groups from
Canada, France, Germany, England, Hungary, Japan, mexico, the Netherlands and
the USA. (...)
(Profiles. James W. Felter. Mraur Post [with many biographical details]. In:
Artistamp News [→ Banana], Vol. 6, #1, Feb. 1996. 6-7 p.)
Fenyvesi Tóth, Árpád. Vörösmarti u. 11. Balatonfenyves, H-8646 Hungary 1978
Launching the Contart Edition / postal arte creativa in 1977-78 (Contart: → Rehfeldt)
to create selfmade postcards and distribut it by the means of special art
(of) correspondence. This effort was the most important venture to establish
the Mail Art in Hungary after the very individual initiatives of Endre
→ Tót and Gábor → Tóth about 1971-76.
^New Signalistic Strip (manifest & exhibition). Doc. / → FMK, Budapest, 1978
Graphic oeuvre by the mixture of estranged comics strips and elements
of the visual poetry (using instant print and rubber stamp compositions).