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Em Trânsito - Mail Art
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Em Trânsito - Mail Art
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The exhibition EM TRÂNSITO, curated by Carlos Barroco, intends to provide a record of a movement where Art and Communication meet, and to disclose the works that could be gathered from the different archives of artists, collectors and institutions, both national and foreigner.
The members of the FLUXUS group encouraged the creation of Mail Art, which is considered to have appeared formally in 1962, when the American Neo-Dadaist Ray Johnson founded the “New York Correspondence School of Art”.
The postal system is used for sending and receiving “images” in different forms and materials, paper, wood, plastic, photographs, photocopies, drawings, paintings, books, audio and video cassettes, among others.
In Portugal, particularly since the 1980s, several groups of plastic artists use this medium to disseminate their work and exchange it among each other and with foreign artists. There have been and still are many plastic artists, poets, writers who have used and use the Postal System as a privileged medium of artistic communication.
It is this private process, made of complicities between the parties involved, that we bring to you through this exhibition. The exhibition and associated book, entitled «Em Trânsito Arte Postal / Mail Art», is not only the record of a reborn and reinvented movement, Mail Art, but it also describes how this form of communicating art through the post has developed in Portugal.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday from 10 am till 18 pm
Saturday from 14 pm till 18 pm
Last Thursday of each month from 10 am till 22 pm (free entry between 18 pm and 22 pm)
Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações
Museu das Comunicações
Rua do Instituto Industrial, nº 16
1200-225 Lisboa
Telephone: 21 393 50 00
E-mail: info@fpc.pt
www.fpc.pt
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