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Bulk mailing post cards from the Dead.
Artists who were in ear-shot, down stream of or on Matthew Rose’ email list, were invited to produce 500, 4 x 6 post cards on the topic of
Death inspired by Ray Johnson's “A Book About Death”, and celebrating Emily Harvey, the late art dealer.
Artists who were in ear-shot, down stream of or on Matthew Rose’ email list, were invited to produce 500, 4 x 6 post cards on the topic of
Death inspired by Ray Johnson's “A Book About Death”, and celebrating Emily Harvey, the late art dealer.
With You Tube, Facebook and
even Bing, challenging the “Post
Card” for space on my
refrigerator, it’s a clever strategy
to invite artists to muse on the
topic of Death as a way to
organize a show. And as indicated
in the swarm of people who came
out for the opening, a thoroughly
successful and affective way to
launch the new art season in New
York, one that was described in
the Sunday “Arts” section as not
having the obligatory block buster
exhibition on its roster that
normally serves more as a revenue
generator, (….”Don’t go chasing
water falls”……), unless you want
to lose “An arm or a leg” as the
price for admittance into some of
these refurbished Malls that used
to be Museums.
even Bing, challenging the “Post
Card” for space on my
refrigerator, it’s a clever strategy
to invite artists to muse on the
topic of Death as a way to
organize a show. And as indicated
in the swarm of people who came
out for the opening, a thoroughly
successful and affective way to
launch the new art season in New
York, one that was described in
the Sunday “Arts” section as not
having the obligatory block buster
exhibition on its roster that
normally serves more as a revenue
generator, (….”Don’t go chasing
water falls”……), unless you want
to lose “An arm or a leg” as the
price for admittance into some of
these refurbished Malls that used
to be Museums.
This kept the spot light off a single work and drew
attention to the multitude of artifact highlighting the
relevance of the topic and the exuberant call to arms. But
perhaps the essentiality of the subject gets hosed down to
accommodate an “angle” rather than opening up a new window
on “Death” that awaits us all with an exasperating grin.
About a year ago I received a post card from someone. The front
had a sumptuous red pedaled flower on it. The backside was
signed by an artist I knew remotely. An artist I would come to
learn killed himself the same day the card was post-marked. It
wasn’t his suicide that disturbed me; I was simply on his mailing
list, we all were. It was more the ting in the feeling I got when I re
played the events in my mind of the planning and the steps he
implemented to prepare the bulk mailing of his own death so
that it would be received through the postal system by many as
if to say, “Wow, I’ve been here for just a few days and already
wish you were here”.
Best wishes,
A Book About Death; conceived and organized by
Matthew Rose.
The Emily Harvey Foundation /Gallery 537
Broadway, NYC. Thru 22nd. Sept.
Credit: Photos Courtesy The Emily Harvey
Foundation.
http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
http://abookaboutdeath.net/
Alexander Viscio
attention to the multitude of artifact highlighting the
relevance of the topic and the exuberant call to arms. But
perhaps the essentiality of the subject gets hosed down to
accommodate an “angle” rather than opening up a new window
on “Death” that awaits us all with an exasperating grin.
About a year ago I received a post card from someone. The front
had a sumptuous red pedaled flower on it. The backside was
signed by an artist I knew remotely. An artist I would come to
learn killed himself the same day the card was post-marked. It
wasn’t his suicide that disturbed me; I was simply on his mailing
list, we all were. It was more the ting in the feeling I got when I re
played the events in my mind of the planning and the steps he
implemented to prepare the bulk mailing of his own death so
that it would be received through the postal system by many as
if to say, “Wow, I’ve been here for just a few days and already
wish you were here”.
Best wishes,
A Book About Death; conceived and organized by
Matthew Rose.
The Emily Harvey Foundation /Gallery 537
Broadway, NYC. Thru 22nd. Sept.
Credit: Photos Courtesy The Emily Harvey
Foundation.
http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
http://abookaboutdeath.net/
Alexander Viscio
537 Broadway, The Emily Harvey Foundation /Gallery NYC. September 10th.
The place was packed. Visitors lined around the block and the work remained in their shipping containers arranged on the
floor with the lids opened, welcoming the throng of visitors to bend down and collect a post card from each box thus creating
their own book.
The place was packed. Visitors lined around the block and the work remained in their shipping containers arranged on the
floor with the lids opened, welcoming the throng of visitors to bend down and collect a post card from each box thus creating
their own book.