"Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps" Exhibition
Stendhal Gallery
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The present Stendhal Gallery exhibition continues the exploration of avant-garde art Gaglione and Held began tracing together in the 1970s. Gaglione and Held presented a showcase for Fluxus, Mail Art and rubber stamp art at The Stamp Art Gallery in San Francisco during the mid-1990s. The current exhibition documents the gallery¹s activities through posters, exhibition catalogs, performance documentation, mail art, artist postage stamps, rubber stamp box sets made to commemorate the various exhibitions and excerpts from past Stamp Art Gallery exhibitions.
Gaglione began creating rubber stamp box sets to accompany exhibitions by contemporary artists and to honor historic figures of the 20th Century avant-garde, who had influenced his artistic practice. In putting together the rubber stamp box sets, Gaglione and Held followed the example of Fluxus impresario George Maciunas in his production of Flux-Kits. These inexpensive yet elegant multiple editions set the tone for the production of these post-Fluxus editions.
Stendhal Gallery exhibition will recreate some of the more notable shows Gaglione and Held presented in the past, including the exhibition of Dutch artist, Ruud Janssen¹s, Rubber Stamp Archive, which includes rubber stamp impressions by Fluxus artists. Janssen will lecture at Stendhal Gallery with curator John Held, Jr. Other artists shown in the exhibition include New York Correspondance School artists Ray Johnson and May Wilson, Arman, Robert Watts, and Mail Artists buZ blurr, M. B. Corbett and G. A. Cavellini
Several films will be shown during he exhibition, including a 1977 interview with Ray Johnson by curator John Held Jr., performances by Gaglione and Held, and documentaries on Mail Art.
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Schedule
from April 15, 2010 to May 29, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-15 from 18:00 to 21:00