Artistamps Sheets Exhibition: mayo 2009

CONVOCATORIA de Planchas de sellos / Stamps sheets

Los sellos nacen reunidos en Hojas, Bloques o Planchas y se desprenden de ellos cuando cumplen la edad adulta…
Crea una o varias planchas de sellos de artista con cualquier tema y técnica. El Taller de Zenon te enviará algunos de sus bloques creados recientemente y los sellos de artista recibidos se exhibirán progresivamente en este blog. Tamaño A4 o A5. Cualquier técnica. Fecha límite.

*SE AMPLIA LA FECHA LIMITE HASTA AGOTAR LAS EDICIONES.
Tema libre ( Ver sugerencias)

Enviar a :
Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenón C/ Santa Maria de Guia 1 - 4C. ES-41008 Sevilla, España

Sugerencias:
El erotismo siempre ha sido uno de los motores del ser humano. ¿Sigue siéndolo en estos tiempos, le ha afectado la actual crisis mundial? Considera la opción de trabajar sobre el tema del erotismo en todas sus variantes, el tamaño del sello se adapta perfectamente al tema y resultará interesante comprobar cómo está afectando la crisis actual al erotismo en el arte postal.
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At birth, stamps live all together in a sheet and they come away from it when they become adults...Create one or more than one stamps sheet. Any theme, any medium.The "Taller de Zenon" will send you some of his own sheets recently done and all the received stamps sheets will be exhibited in this blog. Size: A4 or A5. Any medium. Deadline:

*THE DATE LIMIT IS ENLARGED UNTIL DRAINING THE EDITIONS
Any theme (See some suggestions)

Send to:
Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenón C/ Santa Maria de Guia 1 - 4C ES-41008 Sevilla, España

Suggestions:
Eroticism always had been one of the motors of human being ¿Is it still a motor at the present time? ¿Was it affected by the actual global crisis? Consider the option to work about eroticism as a theme in all the possible ways, the requiered size is suitable to develop it, and it will be interesting to prove how the actual crisis is affecting eroticism in connection with Postal Art.
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The Spanish El Taller de Zenón asked for stamp sheets. A number of mailartists make stamps (like I also did with self portraits and a nature-theme).The other time I just cut them into seperate stamps before adding them to sendings. El Taller prefered the sheet: a sheet can be more than just the sum of its elements. You also see this with official stamp sheets.

After I made some eraser cuttings, I wanted to make a cutting as well for this project. But because of the size it could not be an eraser. So I went back to linoleum cutting. In an A5-size piece I drew and cut 12 stamps mainly with isolated body parts and some with bodies in relation to each other. This because of the free but demanded theme of eroticism.

Because I do not have a press it is difficult to get a nice print from the lino-cut. But after some jumping on top of it, taking care not to move the linoleum on the paper sheet I got some nice ones. I used some colour pencils for the accents and punched the holes into the sheet manually (some artists have special machines for this I suppose).

It's on the road. Jan-Willem Doornenbal