A BOOK ABOUT DEATH takes its inspiration from the
late, underground American artist Ray Johnson. Conceptual artist and inventor
of “Correspondence Art,” Ray Johnson mailed his original unbound “book” to
friends and to his New York Correspondence School “students.” The pages, in his
idiosyncratic style, were funny, sad and ironic one page visual meditations on
death and life. Ray lived on Long Island, NY and committed suicide there in
1995.
The first ABAD show in 2009 was the brain child of
Paris-based American artist Matthew Rose. He was influenced by the mail art
work of Ray Johnson and invited artists to contribute 500 identical postcards
on any aspect of the theme of death. The show took place at the Emily Harvey
Foundation Gallery in NYC. Visitors were encouraged to collect one of every
card and take them home. The pages, of every kind of design imaginable,
approached this universal subject from every point of view–personal,
metaphysical, conceptual and abstract. This original show is now in the permanent
collections of the Museum of Modern Art NYC, the MoMA Wales, UK and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art,and included work from artists as well known
as Yoko Ono and as obscure as Dame Mailarta.
ABAD has since grown into an international art movement
that continues to travel across the US and internationally. ABAD has shown in
Brazil, Belgium, the UK, Croatia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Mexico. It
has spawned dozens of collaborative exhibitions on three continents.
This new exhibition celebrates THE TIES THAT
BIND all living things universally through death, as well as the creative
ties which now bind thousands of artists that literally reach around the world.
The Bay Shore, LI exhibit will feature for the first time
new work from worldwide artists that are actual book pages like Ray
Johnson originally created in 1963, and NOT postcards. The pages will
be bound by the curator into a handmade volume and displayed at the exhibition,
thereby furnishing an Omega to the Alpha of the Unbound Book from the original
NYC show.
There have been many performance pieces included in these
shows but never any music. For this show, I would love to feature some
live New Orleans Funeral Jazz! That is primarily what I am raising the money
for. I also need to print up posters and fund publicity and other items for the
opening reception.
Project by LuAnn Palazzo
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