Tarot Christmas Tree Postcard Mail Art Project Coordinatore: K. Frank Jensen, per il Museo dei Tarocchi K. Frank Jensen Sankt Hansgade 20 DK 4000 Roskilde Denmark Frank Jensen Ogni artista ha elaborato una vera cartolina postale rappresentante il tema “L’albero di Natale dei Tarocchi”, che è stato riprodotto in un biglietto augurale natalizio, raccolti in cartelle artistiche in edizione limitata e numerata. Tutte le opere selezionate sono oggetto di mostra presso IBIS LIBRERIA ESOTERICA E FILOSOFICA - Via Castiglione 31 Bologna dal 7 dicembre 2007 - 12 gennaio 2008. Misure della cartolina postale: 10,5 x 15 cm o 4,1 inches x 5,9 inches. Introduction On the museum’s and on my own behalf I wish to thank the mail artists, who have contributed to the Italian “Museo dei Tarocchi”s “Tarot Christmas Tree Trumps” project. Despite a relatively small number of contributions a variety of media were used: digital art, handmade collages, pen and ink drawings, handcoloured drawings, even rubber stamping and embroidery. Totally I received 32 contributions by 28 different artists from 9 different countries. 7 of them could unfortunately not, even with my best will and phantasy, be associated with any of the tarot majors, which the theme was. You will, anyway, find them at the end of this list. Other were not obviously related to a named tarot major arcana card, so I had to make a guess myself. When that happened, it is noted in this documentation. Three tarot majors are not represented among the contributions: Magician, Justice and Judgement. One contributor sent sheets rendering a whole set of 22+2 majors. *** It was with some degree of hesitation I took upon me the task of coordinating the “Tarot Christmas Tree Trumps”project. I have been out of international mail art for many years, actually since 1998-1999, when the so-called “faker” pestered the mail art scene by sending false invitations to mailart-projects, which did not exist. Since 1997 my projects have been “invitational”, i.e. invitations were sent directly to a selected number of artists and not, as practice is in “international mail art”, distributed freely in the network, so that everyone, who stumbled over a running project, could contribute. The first four of my mail art projects dealing with tarot were open to all and took place each year during 1993-96. My last project was “Mail Artists’ Tarot 1998", the outcome of which were tree major arcana series combined in one (printed) deck, was invitational. The invitations for “Tarot Christmas Tree Trumps” were sent partly by letter, through the official postal system, to a number of earlier contacts and partly by email. About 50 in each group. Besides this, the invitation reached other potential contributors by being forwarded or mentioned on websites and in blogs. Six postal letters were returned due to no longer valid addresses; some of them took a month or more to be returned from nearby countries. So much for the postal service. In the heydays back in the 1990’s there were hardly any day without mailart related mail in the letterbox It has now for almost a couple of months been a great and nostalgic pleasure to look into the mailbox every morning to see if any new and welcome contributions had shown up. I will not wonder if there are still one or two delayed sendings on their way. Thanks again! K. Frank Jensen November 3. 2007 OPERE SELEZIONATE: ZAV FRANCE USA STRADADA ITALY SCHOKO CASANA ROSSO - Mildbrandt GERMANY ANTONIO SASSU ITALY GIANCARLO PUCCI ITALY CLAUDIO PARENTELA ITALY JURGEN O. OLBRICH GERMANY KEIICHI NAKAMURA JAPAN HENNING MITTENDORF GERMANY RUGGERO MAGGI ITALY MARTHA LAGERWERF NETHERLANDS K. FRANK JENSEN DENMARK LOUISE HEROUX CANADA ROLAND HALBRITTER GERMANY KARL FRIEDRICH HACKER GERMANY A.D.EKER NETHERLANDS DAVID DELLAFIORA AUTRALIA JOE DECIE UNITED KINGDOM MELANIE J. COOK AUSTRALIA LESLIE COCHRAN USA DENNIS CHARMOT FRANCE ANNA BOSCHI ITALY NINA BOGIN USA JOHN M. BENNET USA ANGELA BEHREND GERMANY KATE BATES GREIT BRITAIN VITTORE BARONI ITALY AUNTY A UK ARNELL ANDO USA INFO: Frank Jensen Sankt Hansgade 20 DK 4000 Roskilde Denmark E-MAIL DEL MUSEO Index