THANKS TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS FOR THESE NICE MAIL ART COLLECTION

Freitag, 29. Februar 2008




No. 185 - arriving mail art "BANANA'NDREAS HOFER" from "E" (France) - it it the preparatory drawing (big sized postcard) he made for the artistsheet to my planed artistbook. (see: http://andreas-hofer.blogspot.com/2008/02/no-158-arriving-mail-art-and.html) backsides with another variation a Mickey Mouse Hofer and a nice little drawing in the corner. Thank you very much for sending me this, to see how you have worked out the other painting.
see his blogs:

No. 184 - arriving mail art "shoot better" from Hans Peter Omann (Denmark)



No. 184 - arriving mail art "shoot better" from Hans Peter Omann (Denmark) - Hans Peter has sent a decorated envelope (unfortunately it becomes wet through sending) inside a variation of the shooting down of Andreas Hofer - he has used a well known scenery, a painting by Francisco de Goya from 1814 and modified it into the shooting to Andreas Hofer. He put as well inside a little drawing on a piece of paper. Thank you very much.

Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2008

No. 183 - arriving mail art from Angela Behrendt (Germany)


No. 183 - arriving mail art from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - Angela has made a photo of one of my postcard in front of a plastic hero; the postcard with the illustration "Fluxus Hofer" from Litsa Spathi, which I modified in a typical way Angela did sometimes. Thank you very much.

Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008

No. 182 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer - the Tyrolean Hero" from Jean Eric Muguet (France)



No. 182 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer - the Tyrolean Hero" from Jean Eric Muguet (France) - a nice drawing on a postcard, the funny image illustrates Andreas fighting against Napoléon. Thank you very much.

No. 181 - arriving mail art "dans sa vie La Guerre" from "E" (France)




No. 181 - arriving mail art "dans sa vie La Guerre" from "E" (France) - two more nice works from him arrived today. A nice decorated envelope with collages and drawings, backside with a frightning skull. Inside he put another painting - an apocalyptic Napoléon writing a horse. Thank you very much.
see his blogs: http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com/
http://ambassadeutopia.blogspot.com/
http://galeriedesmona.blogspot.com/

No. 180 - arriving mail art "Le petit echo du cirque" from Corentine (France)



No. 180 - arriving mail art "Le petit echo du cirque" from Corentine (France) - Corentine has used one of the postcard with the illustration Litsa Spathi did for my project. She modified it with different collages and paintings. Thank you very much.
Corentine has a mail art call about Clowns and Snails.

No. 178 & No. 179 - arriving mail art "AH" from Luis Valera Escarré and Annijames Rivero (Venezuela)




No. 178 & No. 179 - arriving mail art "AH" from Luis Valera Escarré and Annijames Rivero (Venezuela) - the two artists have sent me each two mail art inside of one letter (one for my socks project, which you can see on my other blog); Annijames has made a polaroid photo and put some collages to it; Luis has sent a photo with some extra drawings on it. Thank you very much.
see the blog: http://bienalvenezuela.blogspot.com/

Dienstag, 26. Februar 2008

No. 177 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Lisette Candela (France)



No. 177 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Lisette Candela (France) - a wonderful portrait of Andreas Hofer worked out in water colour by Lisette. Thank you very much.

No. 175 & No. 176 - arriving mail art "Andreas" from "E" (France)




No. 175 & No. 176 - arriving mail art "Andreas" from "E" (France) - two more nice works from him arrived today. One of it is the card I sent to him with three Andreas Hofer Jackets on it, he put some more to it and painted it all over. The other one is a linogravure he made upon the illustration Litsa Spathi did for me. Thank you very much.

Montag, 25. Februar 2008

No. 174 - arriving mail art "Homage to Andreas Hofer" from Roberto Formigoni (Italy)



No. 174 - arriving mail art "Homage to Andreas Hofer" from Roberto Formigoni (Italy) - this wonderful drawing on big sized postcard came from Roberto today - it shows his atelier while he is paiting a portrait of Andreas Hofer. Thank you very much.

No. 173 - arriving mail art "Andreas Jocundus Hofer is not a terrorist" from Ennio Pauluzzi (Italy)



No. 173 - arriving mail art "Andreas Jocundus Hofer is not a terrorist" from Ennio Pauluzzi (Italy) - Ennio has sent a portrait of Andreas Hofer, backsides with two more drawn portraits one with the left hand and one with his right hand. He has a mail art project about not common hand drawings - drawings of elephants. Thank you very much.

No. 172 - arriving mail art "Lot" from Philippe Pissier (France)



No. 172 - arriving mail art "Lot" from Philippe Pissier (France) - it is an postcard from Lot with a silhouette of Andreas Hofer and the rat of teh mouvie Ratatouille on his shoulder. Thank you very much.

Freitag, 22. Februar 2008

No. 171 - arriving mail art "Do you know this guy - Is this Billy the kid or ...?" from Heike E. Sackmann (Germany)



No. 171 - arriving mail art "Do you know this guy - Is this Billy the kid or ...?" from Heike E. Sackmann (Germany) - Heike has sent a nice card in mixed media, collage, painting, drawing. Thank you very much.
see her page: http://www.heike-sackmann.de/
and her mail art blog: http://bzw-plus-n.blogspot.com/

No. 170 - arriving mail art "schöner hofer" from Eberhard Janke (Germany)



No. 170 - arriving mail art "schöner hofer" from Eberhard Janke (Germany) - a modified and cut out postcard, I suppose something has been lost during the sending(?). backsides with the text: "first impression - zum Bergisel?" Thank you very much.

No. 169 - arriving mail art from Alfonso Lentini (Italy)



No. 169 - arriving mail art from Alfonso Lentini (Italy) - Alfonso has sent back my inviting card which I sent to him, a little bit modified with stamps and collages. Thank you very much.

No. 168 - arriving mail art "jede Generation muss sich ihren Hofer selbst neu erarbeiten!" from Michael Fox (Germany)



No. 168 - arriving mail art "jede Generation muss sich ihren Hofer selbst neu erarbeiten!" from Michael Fox (Germany) - a decorated envelope with a card board inside, which were painted and collaged. Thanks you very much.

Dienstag, 19. Februar 2008



No. 167 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer Portrait" from "E" (France) -another nice portrait arrived today, even with a postage stamp with Napoléon on it. Thank you very much.
see his blogs:

http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com/http://ambassadeutopia.blogspot.com/http://galeriedesmona.blogspot.com/

No. 166 - arriving mail art "Before you start a revolution - look for a revolutionary outfit" from Bernhard Zilling (Germany)


No. 166 - arriving mail art "Before you start a revolution - look for a revolutionary outfit" from Bernhard Zilling (Germany) - Bernhard has modified as well one of the fluxus Hofer Litsa Spathi did for my call. Here he claims for the right revolutionary outfit. Thank you very much.

No. 165 - arriving mail art "Beuys will be Beuys" from Wolfgang Skodd (Germany)



No. 165 - arriving mail art "Beuys will be Beuys" from Wolfgang Skodd (Germany) - Wolfgang has used once more the silhouettes of to of my modified Persons with Andreas Hofer Jackets and laid it over the portrait of Joseph Beuys, in this case he collaged as well one jacket over one of the persons. The Andreas Hofer jacket becoming more and more the running gag of my blog. Thank you very much.

Montag, 18. Februar 2008

No. 164 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer Collage" from "E" (France)



No. 164 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer Collage" from "E" (France) - a funny collage arrived today, a giraffe with the Andreas Hofer Jacket. backsides even with a postage stamp with Napoléon on it. Thank you very much.

No. 163 - arriving mail art "executed Feb. 20th 1810" from Mete Sarabi (USA)



No. 163 - arriving mail art "executed Feb. 20th 1810" from Mete Sarabi (USA) - unfortunately a postcard with obviously missing parts / collages in it, because I only detected some rests of glue on a commercial postcard, only with the handwritten title on it. Thanks.

Samstag, 16. Februar 2008

No. 162 - arriving mail art "Moldova Andreas Hofer" from Teodor Ajder (Poland)



No. 162 - arriving mail art "Moldova Andreas Hofer" from Teodor Ajder (Poland) - Teodor has sent a nice drawn portrait of Andreas Hofer after the austrian postage stamp. He used teh wird Moldava because he derives from this countryThanks you very much. .
see his blog: http://postautoportret.blogspot.com/

Freitag, 15. Februar 2008

No. 161 - arriving mail art "Help yourself ! - Hofer helps Hofer" from Heike E. Sackmann (Germany)



No. 161 - arriving mail art "Help yourself ! - Hofer helps Hofer" from Heike E. Sackmann (Germany) - Heike has used an illustration from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff from 1934 and modified it into this funny scenery. Unfortunately the drowning Hofer has lost one of his arms during the sending. Thank you very much.

Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008

No. 160 - arriving mail art "Sandwirt" from Keith Bates (United Kingdom)



No. 160 - arriving mail art "Sandwirt" from Keith Bates (United Kingdom) - a computer generated postcard with a kind of a ticket on it, saying "Sandwirt" (the name for the innkeeper Andreas Hofer). Thank you very much.

Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008

No. 159 - arriving mail art "Merano - I am here & you ?" from Matthias Schönweger (Italy)



No. 159 - arriving mail art "Merano - I am here & you ?" from Matthias Schönweger (Italy) - Matthias has sent a modified historical postcard from Merano (the region where Andreas Hofer lives) with a tiny little angel collage on it. Thank you very much.