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21 postcards 1-7, mixed media, 2009.    


Series of Seven pieces. Each one of the pieces consists of 21 collected postcards, tied together and altered with mixed media techniques. The 21 postcards, symbolizing 21 grams: "They say a body always loses exactly 21 grams at the moment of death." Could it be that in a simple number is contained something as precious as life?


Each piece is approximately

8" x 6".

MUBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura: Contributing artists from around the world are participating in this critical part and new chapter in the exhibition of “A Book About Death.”

This exhibition entitled "Um Livro Sobre A Morte" at MUBE in São Paulo, Brazil opens on February 3, 2010 and runs through March 28.

A Book About Death is a collaborative project conceived by american artist Matthew Rose for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City, where the original exhibition took place from September 10 – 22, 2009. Approximately 500 artists contributed 500 artworks in the form of post cards of varying sizes each created from works made especially to create an unbound book about death.

The exhibition paid special homage to Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a highly influential figure in contemporary American art, a formidable collage artist and long acknowledged as the “Father of Mail Art” with his creation of a network, The New York Correspondence School. The exhibition also paid homage and celebrated the life of Emily Harvey (1941-2004), the late art dealer who tirelessly promoted Fluxus artist and whose Foundation generously supported the project.

The exhibition opened with a packed house, and a line snaking up Broadway more than 500 people long waiting to get in the doors to make their own book. Since then, the exhibition has traveled to the Otis College of Art and Design in LA, The River Mill Art Gallery in New Jersey, The Mobius Gallery in Boston, MA, The Queens Museum in Queens, NY, The Sexta Literary Arts Festival in Tijuana, Mexico, as well as smaller galleries and schools in Louisiana, Wisconsin and Long Island.

Complete sets of “A Book About Death" have entered into the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Library), and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library.

A project by Matthew Rose | Curated by Angela Ferrara

umlivrosobreamorte.blogspot.com

www.mube.art.br

abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com


MUBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura
Avenida Europa, 218 – Jardim Europa
CEP 01449 000 – São Paulo, SP – Brazil

 

MARY BOGDAN @ MUBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil | Feb 3 - Mar 28, 2010

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS


1 Alix Lambert

2 Lowe Martin

3 Judith A. Skolnick

4 Michel Della Vedova

5 Angela Ferrara

6 Ektoras Binikos

7 Pedro Bericat

8 Mimi Shapiro

9 Louise Millmann

10 Darrell Black

11 Benoit Piret/ Bentripe

12 Katerina Nikoltsou

13 JF Chapelle

14 Daniel de Culla

15 Marcy Rutledge

16 Angela Ferrara

17 John M. Bennett

18 Irene Gennaro

19 Johannes Gerad

20 Ellin Pollacheck

21 Katerina Nikoltsou

22 Reid Wood

23 Mathew Rose

24 Walter Festuccia

25 Dmitry Babenko

26 Hugo Pontes

27 Constança Lucas

28 Mary Bridgaman

29 Louise Millmann

30 Nadine Bouler

31 Raymond Furlotte

32 Maria Regina Pinto Pereira

33 Richard Tronson

34 Altina Felício

35 Maria da Glória Jesus de Oliveira

36 Michele Amendolari

37 Cassandra Langer

38 Petala Eytihia

39 Virginia Milici

40 Fernanda Cobra

41 Edel Vecci

42 Willian Evertson

43 Tales Sabara

44 Charles Meyers

45 Irene Christensen

46 Tulio Restrepo

47 Kathleen McHugh

48 Willian Evertson

49 Anna Schwamborn

50 Dombrowski

51 Tara Verheide

52 Carmela Corsitto

53 Rolland Halbtritter

54 Jane Wang

55 David Powell

56 lawrence Charles Miller

57 Boz Blur

58 Fernanda da Paula Silva

59 Jane Wang

60 Nadia Magnabosco

61 Johnannes Gerard

62 Jussara Pires

63 Natalie Giugni

64 Gabriele Longobardi

65 Holly Armishaw

66 Virginia Milici

67 Elgin Carver

68 Horst Baur

69 Chapelle

70 Maletti Gianfranco

71 Roberta Faccioli

72 Keith A. Buchholz

73 W David Powell

74 Ektoras Binikos

75 Susan Shulman

76 Edwin Velazquez Collazo

77 Ria Vanden Eynde

78 MariaGrazia Benvenuti

79 Renee Creager O'brien

80 Carolyn Mckay

81 Denis Charmot

82 Janelle Scolaro

83 Tricia Burr

84 Robin Kolleman

85 Marco Simola

86 Francesca Pirillo

87 Karla Gironda

88 Susan Hulman

89 Marina Bancroft

90 Gerard de Bruin

91 Eline 'T Sant

92 Bonny Finberg

93 Albert Charles

94 Iria Lenino

95 John Kuzich

96 Jennifer Zoellner

97 Joyce Ryckman

98 Petra Jovanovska

99 Cheryl Braganza



100 Blair Dobbins

101 Luc Fierens

102 Mark Sonnenfeld

103 Les Joynes

104 Sol Lang

105 Mary Bogdan

106 Jennifer Zoellner

107 Luiz Ratto

108 João Colagem

109 Dalachinsky

110 Chris Terrell

111 Nilson Sato

112 John Moore

113 Vera Ferro

114 Lina Bandiera

115 Ramona Candy

116 Mary Chang

117 Miryam Prodanovic

118 Sheila Goloborotko

119 Tahia Macluf

120 Giovanni Strada

121 Sonja Benskin Mesher

122 Gicelle Archanjo

123 Joseph Nechvatal

124 Jennifer Zoellner

125 Dominic Khoo

126 Vicky Cull

127 Liese A. Ricketts

128 Jenny E. Balisle

129 Mark Sink

130 Andrea Nobis

131 Gabi Moralez

132 Rodrigo Casabona

133 Gabriela Chiarioni

134 Fatima Lourenço

135 Karime Rubez

136 Valéria Alonso

137 Fernanda Eva

138 Neto Sansone

139 Coletivo Invisivel

140 Milanka Bunard

141 Luiz Villa

142 Inês da Silva

143 Bruno Viana Ferreira

144 Luciene Viana

145 Carolina Bottura

146 Michel Chan

147 Ronaldo de Almeida Sarmento - Marks

148 Ana Boschi

149 Ria Vanden Eyne

150 Marcelo Gerace

151 Eva Reiter

152 Lavon D. Leak

153 Roberto Fabra

154 Louie Joyce Cornall

155 Vera Bonnemasou

156 Luza Christ

157 Renato M. Ferreira

158 Bifidus Jones

159 Johannes Gerad

160 Charlotte Wouters

161 Marcey Rutledge

162 Gary Bibb

163 Carlene Frances

164 Victoria Kwasinski

165 Rogério Dal' Mar

166 Domenico Severino

167 Carlos Rezende

168 Vanessa Di Giorgio

169 Angela Ferrara

170 Silvia Matos

171 Luciana Alves

172 Solange Quiroga

173 Cildo Oliveira

174 Lily Simon

175 Pedro Nasser

176 Shirley Hathaway

177 Alyse Miller

178 Alex Orsetti

179 Luciana Mariano

180 Minjung Kang

181 Maria Hayes

182 Christian Greis

183 John M. Bennett

184 Verena Blank

185 Sergio Pereira Godoy

186 Hayley Lock

187 Lee Gurga

188 Billye Miraglia

189 Mili Purpil

190 Paul Hutchinson

191 Dale Copeland

192 Anne Holliday

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VIDEO PERFORMANCE

Sol Lang

Joseph Nechvatal

Angela Ferrara




SOUND PERFORMANCE

Bridgid Roney

Constantine Ladikos

Forrest Paquin

Ginny Lloyd

Giorgio Giampà

Heta Kuchka

James Woodford

Jan Kather

Jane Wang

Jim Thompson (Gaspipe)

Mary Bogdan

Roberto Fiore

Sean White

Sol Lang

< Click to watch the video, see Mary’s pieces hanging in the middle of the room at 3:08.

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