Luc Fierens

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Luc Fierens

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For me there is no debate, as i mentioned already:
because of new technologies(xeroxmachine) artists started experimenting with xerox & some artists & curators did question the "quality".. for me mail-art is about communication, about the process not about the artifact.. Ray Johnson cut up his collages & send them out, Robin Crozier etc

.... i have send out also hundreds of collages, galleryowners will question the moneyvalue & my act of sending them away..?

What is quality when, i mean hypes & trends build the prices in the artmarket, mail-art is outside this market so our value cannot be measured,how can you measure communication-art ? I feel good about quality when a mail-art exchange works & brings me joy,...

Some curators try to determine quality to cut up the mail-artnetwork in pieces to sell it to the market :artists'books,livre d'artistes, small limited editions -assemblings , collages etc...

I admit i sell some collages to stay alive to pay the rent & my postagestamps.Quality or selection is impossible to measure , so use your own personal taste as inspiration to choose ,send & live it ,.. we can not correspond with everybody but recently i see more activity of e-mailartists then mail-artists (who send their work by the postal system) so it's time to go back to our roots & to cherish the act of sending & receiving a letter.

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excerpt from an interview w/ Luc Fierens