Mail Art
 

We like to quote one of the pioneer mail artists Robert  Rehfeldt: 

"Your idea helps my idea, our ideas help the ideas of  others",

because we think that both cooperation  and dialogue can generate something new and beautiful. 

Everyone can participate in Mail Art. 

It is enough to follow the basic rules, which have not been created by us,  but have been developed by the great movement for years and years all over  the world.

 Instructions for  our Mail Art project:

1. Try to invent an alternative way to use a  postcard. Elaborate your ideas on a rectangular card of 10x15, on both  sides.

2. You can use various techniques, but you have to respect one  rule: The Mail Art postcard must be created with one or more photographs. 

3. On the back side the artist has to write a short text: a thought, a  message, a poem...

4. The postcard must have a signature, and if  possible also the readable name, so that we can create a list of the  participating artists.

5. The postcard must also contain the written  date.

6. Choice of subject is free.

7. There will be no selection  procedure. 

8. Participation is free, but the artist takes the  responsibility that the Mail Art postcard will be correctly sent through the  postal service of his/her own country.

9. It is possible to send more  than one Mail Art postcard or to create a series reassembled from a single  work. Please inform us if you intend to do so!

10. All works will be  published on the website www.officinadelleimmagini.net. This will increase  the value of the initiative, and will contribute to the final show of all  the received postcards, which will be organized in an adequate exhibition  space.

11. Deadline: 25 - 05 - 2010

12. Please send  your Mail Art postcard(s) to: Officina delle Immagini

                                                                      Casella Postale 6133

                                                                                           00195 Roma     Italy