2019. Acryl on old canvas, 130 x 160 cm

 

In maart 2019 werd ik door LuAnne gevraagd deel te nemen aan het art project A Book About Death.
Zie hier mijn bijdrage. Te zien in het Islip Museum NY vanaf 14-9-2019.

“A Book About Death,” (ABAD) is an on-going, unbound, unpaginated book produced by artists worldwide. It was inspired by American artist Ray Johnson (1927–1995) and initiated by Matthew Rose as an international collective art project in September 2009. A Book about Death began with Ray Johnson, an American artist living on Long Island known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist. He was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as "New York's most famous unknown artist." Conceptual artist and inventor of “Correspondence Art,” Ray Johnson mailed his original unbound book to friends and to his New York Correspondence School “students” in the 1960’s. The pages, in his idiosyncratic style, were funny, sad and ironic one page visual meditations on death and life.. Many attending artists went on to exhibit their collections at other galleries around the world. The project grew into an international phenomena with artists curating their own exhibitions and calling for new artworks to be created for each new show. ABAD has grown into an international art movement that continues to travel across the world. To date, ABAD has spawned more than two dozen collaborative exhibitions on four continents, captivating visitors in Australia, Brazil, Belgium, the UK, Croatia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Mexico. The complete set of 486 cards is now in the Permanent Collections of the MoMA, NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, the Willo North Gallery, AZ, and the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library at C. W. Post/LIU, Brookville, NY. It includes work from artists as well known as Yoko Ono and as obscure as Dame Mailarta. The cards, of every design imaginable, approached this universal subject from every point of view–personal, metaphysical, conceptual and abstract.