29# EDSON BUENO DE CAMARGO (Mauá,SP-BRAZIL)

(10x15cm both) 2013

28# ALFREDO CONSTELA DOCE (A Coruña-SPAIN)

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 From Spain i received this great piece, a mix media work (collage and painting).

27# CLEMENTE PADIN (Montevideo-URUGUAY)

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 Clemente Padin is a very well know mail artist, the work that he create is very simple in construction, some collages with his own rubber stamps. The best way to descrive Padin mail art, his the "minimal" approach that he always places on his small works.

26# DÓRIAN RIBAS MARINHO (Florianópilis-BRAZIL)(

(14,5x20cm) 2013

 Dorian Ribas Marinho is one of the pioneers of the Mail Art movement in Brazil, that he takes part since 1978. His original works are pieces of visual poetry, created with Digital "tools", something that is now used by a lot of new mail artists.

25# GIOVANNI STRADA (Ravenna-ITALY)

(21x29,6cm) 2013

 Its always great to received some mail art pieces from old school mail artists like Strada. Giovanni's work is related to the Fluxus and Dada moviment. The characteristic envelopes with his stamps, and the works that go with them inside, where the use of collage is one of the main techniques used, always with some self portraits of the artist, and some layers of watercolor, make the work of strada easily recognizable in the stream of Mail Art.

24# JUAN LÓPEZ DE AEL (Vitoria-SPAIN)

"Toro Blanco, Toro Negro" (17x12cm) 2013

 From Spain arrieved this great piece, his author is Juan Lopez de Ael, another mail artists that embrace the Mail Art moviment since 1992.

23# FLEUR HELSINGOR(Oakland CA-USA)

(13x26cm) 2013

 Fleur his a very creative mail artist from Oakland-Califórnia, what i like on the work, is the contemporary touch that we can find always on his mail art pieces. Helsingor is on the list of my favourite mail artists (and i know many...), the reason why, is because in every project that he decides to participate, besides the visual aspect of the work, we note that the work was not done in a few minutes, there is the concern that the piece fits in the context of thematic proposal, through a creative process that spans the barrier banal. The thought of the artist, is then a force of transmission concepts and ideas, one aspect that distinguishes a contemporary artist, from other.

22# PIETRO ROMANO MATARRESE (Bari-ITALY)

(15x10cm). lemon juice on paper, 2013

 From Italy comes this interesting piece, Pietro uses simple but effective draw lines, to establich his point of view to the theme proposed. The minimal and elegante picture comes framed, that gives to the work a personal touch.

21# SHARON SILVERMAN (Haverhill MA-USA)

(21,2x20cm) 2013

 The first reaction  i have when i open the above envelope, was "WOW". Thats what i like on mail art, we never know what kind of surprises we can find on our mail box. This amazing and beautiful digital collage, was made by Sharon Silverman from Haverhill-Massachusetts (USA), she's part of the mail art moviment since 1980's. Sharon is also collecting artwork for the "Face of Jesus" MailArt Exhibition, a project that going strong since 2011, an exhibition that is moving around United States.

20# CAROLINA BUSQUETS (Santiago-CHILE)

(27x33,5cm)2013

 Another surprise arrived to my mail box, two nice pieces by Carolina, she sent this two drawings on black glossy  paper, made ​​probably with a scalpel blade ...

19# EDUARDO CARDOSO (Sines-PORTUGAL)

"Minotauro elaborando a fúria no labirinto" (21x29,6cm) 2013

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Eduardo is very active portuguese mail artist, the best way to describe his small pieces is the minimal approach that he put in all his works. The use of print techniques gives a very contemporary feeling to the mail art that he create.

18# ENI ILIS (Campinas SP-BRAZIL)

(20x18,3cm) 2013

What i like on the mail art of Eni, is that she uses in her collages, images from magazines, which highlights also the characteristic envelopes that she conceives with this material.

17# ANKE VAN DEN BERG (Herselt-BELGIUM)

(10x15,2cm) 2013

Anke sent this pure collage mail art piece, that transport us to the childhood field, like a fairy tale, where the bad wolf is a bull...I tried to discover the website of this artist, but i don't know if this the right one....

16# SABELA BAÑA (a Coruna- SPAIN)

(11x15,7cm) 2013

 From Spain comes this simple drawing by Sabela, she's also a mail artist that we can always count on seeing in  most of the internatinoal mail art exhibitions.

15# JUDY SKOLNICK (Washington DC-USA)

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Judy like other mail artists represented here, is a member of the IUOMA (International Union Of Mail Artists), i have saw a lot of participations of her, in other mail art calls, so thanks to send  also to this one.

14# TIZIANA BARACCHI (Venezia Mestre-ITALY)

(29,6x21cm) 2013

Tiziana is very active mail artist from Italy, she's part of the movement since the first years of 80's. Her mail art is very close to the dada and fluxus aesthetics,  where she incorporates some symbols, like te apple, a polyhedric fruit, that could represent the good and evil.

13# KATERINA NIKOLTSOU (Thessaloniki_GREECE)

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 From the country where the legend of minotaur saw the day light, comes this three pieces by Katerina, with some rubber stamps on the backside. Nikoltsou is a very active mail artists, she usually works with the collage technique, creating small pieces with a very sense of color and originality.

12# BRUNO GHEERBRANT (Wervik-BELGIUM)

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 From Belgium comes this nice piece, which alludes to the labyrinth of the Minotaur. Bruno conceived this work with the use of marker pens. The interesting thing about mail art, is that you never know in what conditions it arrieves to our mail box, and may come damaged (by rainwater in this case).

11# LARRY ANGELO (Philadelphia-USA)

(27,8x21,7cm) 2013

 I'm not very familiar with the work of Larry, or is a new mail artist, or only sporadically participates in exhibitions of this kind, anyway his work was very welcome. It is a simple digital compositing with the Face of a bull, with many images related to the theme, thanks Larry.