The First International April Fool's Day Mail Art Exhibition

Call For Mail Art - The First International April Fool's Day Mail Art Exhibition

The Tate Modern Gallery, London is sorely lacking in examples of Mail Art for a permanent exhibition of Mail Art.

"Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. - Mail art is also, simultaneously, a message that is sent, the medium through which it is sent as well as one of the longest-lasting art movements in history. To be precise, an amorphous international mail art network evolved of thousands of participants in over fifty countries between the 1950s and the 1990s from the work of Ray Johnson and influenced by earlier groups, including Dada and Johnson's contemporaries in the Fluxus group."*

Today, there are over 500 companies listed on Froogle as trading in Mail Art memorabilia and thousands of informational internet sites and galleries. However, mainstream galleries and critics do little to publicise or promote the art form and artists. Mail Art is major sociological phenomenon which has been under-represented in the art world for too long.

The purpose of this call for Mail Art is that artists contribute (donate) one or more piece of their work which is drawn, printed or painted onto an envelope, parcel or postcard to the Tate Modern Gallery, London on or before April Fool's Day.

The style, subject matter, and media are open to the individual artist's desecration.

To learn more about formats, visit http://www.mailartist.com/kiyotei/index.html

Address all Mail Art submissions to:

April Fool's Day
Mail Art Exhibition
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG

George Glasser
For contact details visit: http://www.g-tigerclaw.com

Editor's Notes:
See more information about Mail Art at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art
http://www.mailartist.com/