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21 postcards 1-7, mixed media, 2009.    

Series of Seven pieces. Each one of the pieces consists of 21 collected postcards, tied together and altered with mixed media techniques. The 21 postcards, symbolizing 21 grams: "They say a body always loses exactly 21 grams at the moment of death." Could it be that in a simple number is contained something as precious as life?

Each piece is approximately

8" x 6".

This exhibition entitled "Um Livro Sobre A Morte" at MUBE in São Paulo, Brazil opens on February 3, 2010 and runs through March 28.

A Book About Death is a collaborative project conceived by american artist Matthew Rose for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City, where the original exhibition took place from September 10 – 22, 2009. Approximately 500 artists contributed 500 artworks in the form of post cards of varying sizes each created from works made especially to create an unbound book about death.

The exhibition paid special homage to Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a highly influential figure in contemporary American art, a formidable collage artist and long acknowledged as the “Father of Mail Art” with his creation of a network, The New York Correspondence School. The exhibition also paid homage and celebrated the life of Emily Harvey (1941-2004), the late art dealer who tirelessly promoted Fluxus artist and whose Foundation generously supported the project.

The exhibition opened with a packed house, and a line snaking up Broadway more than 500 people long waiting to get in the doors to make their own book. Since then, the exhibition has traveled to the Otis College of Art and Design in LA, The River Mill Art Gallery in New Jersey, The Mobius Gallery in Boston, MA, The Queens Museum in Queens, NY, The Sexta Literary Arts Festival in Tijuana, Mexico, as well as smaller galleries and schools in Louisiana, Wisconsin and Long Island.

Complete sets of “A Book About Death" have entered into the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Library), and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library.

A project by Matthew Rose | Curated by Angela Ferrara

umlivrosobreamorte.blogspot.com

www.mube.art.br

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MUBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura
Avenida Europa, 218 – Jardim Europa
CEP 01449 000 – São Paulo, SP – Brazil

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

1 Alix Lambert

2 Lowe Martin

3 Judith A. Skolnick

4 Michel Della Vedova

5 Angela Ferrara

6 Ektoras Binikos

7 Pedro Bericat

8 Mimi Shapiro

9 Louise Millmann

10 Darrell Black

11 Benoit Piret/ Bentripe

12 Katerina Nikoltsou

13 JF Chapelle

14 Daniel de Culla

15 Marcy Rutledge

16 Angela Ferrara

17 John M. Bennett

18 Irene Gennaro

19 Johannes Gerad

20 Ellin Pollacheck

21 Katerina Nikoltsou

22 Reid Wood

23 Mathew Rose

24 Walter Festuccia

25 Dmitry Babenko

26 Hugo Pontes

27 Constança Lucas

28 Mary Bridgaman

29 Louise Millmann

30 Nadine Bouler

31 Raymond Furlotte

32 Maria Regina Pinto Pereira

33 Richard Tronson

34 Altina Felício

35 Maria da Glória Jesus de Oliveira

36 Michele Amendolari

37 Cassandra Langer

38 Petala Eytihia

39 Virginia Milici

40 Fernanda Cobra

41 Edel Vecci

42 Willian Evertson

43 Tales Sabara

44 Charles Meyers

45 Irene Christensen

46 Tulio Restrepo

47 Kathleen McHugh

48 Willian Evertson

49 Anna Schwamborn

50 Dombrowski

51 Tara Verheide

52 Carmela Corsitto

53 Rolland Halbtritter

54 Jane Wang

55 David Powell

56 lawrence Charles Miller

57 Boz Blur

58 Fernanda da Paula Silva

59 Jane Wang

60 Nadia Magnabosco

61 Johnannes Gerard

62 Jussara Pires

63 Natalie Giugni

64 Gabriele Longobardi

65 Holly Armishaw

66 Virginia Milici

67 Elgin Carver

68 Horst Baur

69 Chapelle

70 Maletti Gianfranco

71 Roberta Faccioli

72 Keith A. Buchholz

73 W David Powell

74 Ektoras Binikos

75 Susan Shulman

76 Edwin Velazquez Collazo

77 Ria Vanden Eynde

78 MariaGrazia Benvenuti

79 Renee Creager O'brien

80 Carolyn Mckay

81 Denis Charmot

82 Janelle Scolaro

83 Tricia Burr

84 Robin Kolleman

85 Marco Simola

86 Francesca Pirillo

87 Karla Gironda

88 Susan Hulman

89 Marina Bancroft

90 Gerard de Bruin

91 Eline 'T Sant

92 Bonny Finberg

93 Albert Charles

94 Iria Lenino

95 John Kuzich

96 Jennifer Zoellner

97 Joyce Ryckman

98 Petra Jovanovska

99 Cheryl Braganza