Network Atlas by Geza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

348~Literature:n.d. (1985?)^Post Me / Boxers I. (Sheet of 25 diff. stamps, images after oil paintings,colour phc.) n.d.^Post Me / Boxers II. (Sheet of 16 id. stamps. colour phc.) n.d.^Union of Maine Visual Artists (Sheet of 30 diff. stamps, red print onwhite paper) «Artistamp sheet published 1986»(ME, #1, 1980. Statement): «Having been denied (either for political, social,eco nomic, religious or aesthetic reasons) media & publication access & revie &exhibition facilities for my work & views in established public forums, I declarymy independence & create my own state of ME Carlo Pittore.»«ME is ONE.» / «ME WE – ME WE – MAY WE – MAI OUI» (ME, #1, 1980.1 p.)«The State of ME is free. Fre from the Fine Arts prison mentality, free fromlooking back and living in the past, free from pre-conceived notions of art andproperty, free from the quest for approbation by arbitors of good taste, free fromart bureaucrats,and from timidity.Art is no commidity, and cannot be found in any museum; it is not pretty,and it is not material.Art is untidy idea whose time has come. The Art Bureaucracy is run by nonartiststo control artists and to control culture. It is elitist.Do NOT bow down to PhD's in ancient art, and be not susceptible to thepower and control of wilders of mighty economic patronage. Art bureaucrats don'tgive us free meals. Or free rent. Or gas. Or even buy our art. Who wants them to bejudges of life and vitality?Art bureaucrats are professionaly unprepared to deal with the new whichcomes as a fait accompli, and to their chagrin, they are never consulted. Artbureaucrats have denied every contemporary artist and art movement of the last100 years – and their acceptance comes too long after the fact. They are a sceptical,and slow breed, by nature.(Carlo Pittore: Independence Movement. In: ME, #1. 1980. 1 p.)«1. I am ME, and ME is ONE, and all and together I trust. If everybodyplays favorites in our business, if all is based on mutual affection for ME, then isart mutual affection? NO+ ART IS ME!2. After MEdium community and geographic community, the most importantcommunity, and certainly the tiniest, is the aesthetic community, beginning withME.3. Let ME survive and move along classic lines of simplicity.4. This is ME participation in all publications and exhibitions that want ME.Please translate and ciculate pertinent information throughout the Network.5. Let God help us all, and when you pray, remember ME. Thank you. Withlove, from ME.»(Carlo Pittore: Independenst Movement. In: ME, #5. 19883. 1 p.)«We are contenders. We are entering the eternal ring, to become champions. Wewill win because we are strong and healthy, determined and confident. What wedo on the canvas today is more important than merely defending or advancing ourselvesas individuals. Our fight is against everything that is not art. Our struggle isto advence the human comminity and to prove, once again, that the artistic visionlives forever.» (C. Pittore: Statement. In: Sarah → Jackson: Books Build Bridges /Copier Art – Bookworks. Cat.: TU ° NS. / National Postal Museum Halifax, 1986.247. item)Géza Perneczky: The Magazine Network. The trends of alternative art in the lightof their periodicals 1968-1988. Edition Soft Geometry, Köln, 1993. 122-123 p.