Arte Postale! No. 59 – Mail Art Chro no logy

Mail Art Chro No Logy

ILLUSTRATIONS

Pages from the Mail Art fanzine
Arte Postale!
Near the Edge Editions, Forte Dei Marmi / Viareggio, Italy (Ed. and assembled by Vittore Baroni)

No. 4, More Political Satire: Post Scriptum, January 1980
No. 13, T-Shirts Issue, October 1980

Call for the 1981 issues

No. 19, Think About Mail Art, May-June, 1981
No. 34, Are You In Love?, October, 1982
No. 50, Silver, October, 1984
No. 55, Mail Art Handbook, 1986
No. 56, Mail Art & Money Do Mix, January-June, 1987
No. 59, Alternative Philately, January-June, 1989
No. 63, Let’s Network Together, 1992
No. 64, Utopia Infantile, January-March, 1993
No. 70, [Jürgen O. Olbrich], March-April, 1995
No. 83, The David Zack Project, July-December, 2000
No. 87, The Booklet of Oz, January-March, 2003
No. 94, Ultimatum!, 2007

No. 59, Alternative Philately, January-June, 1989

Cover with artistamps; glued on the back cover and included in an envelope on front

Introduction and list of participants

Christian Rigal: Other Stamps

Ads for the Il Soppalco Gallery

Artistamp sheet by Vittore Baroni. Perforated by Franco Piri-Focardi

The call for this issue related to rubberstamps and artistamps began as early as No. 57 and continued until No. 59, in conjunction with Piermario Ciani's desire to organize an exhibition on artiststamps entitled ALTRI FRANCOBOLLI (OTHER STAMPS). Due to some problems with the organization of the exhibition, they were unable to combine the catalog and the exhibition together, which was in fact held in September 1989 at the State of Naon (Pordenone) entitled Filatelia Alternativa – Alternative Philately.
Inside the small issue of AP! are, in loose format: a text on artistamps edited by Baroni; an invitation by Crash F. Piri to create a “personal stamps series” by inserting a personal intervention within the space of a stamp; an invitation to participate in the new issue of AP! 62 themed “The B-Art Issue”; an assembling of stamps by various artists; and an invitation to the opening of an exhibition on Cavellini at Il Soppalco Home Gallery (April 1-July 31, 1989).

This issue had 91 participants.

Text by Olimpia Di Domenico