Rubberstamp Documentation, a Mail Art project by Bart Boumans and Bernd Olbrich, 1982

Wooden archive box, 37 x 18 x 12 cm, containing 414 stamped artists' postcards. Collaborative project of Boumans in Amsterdam and Olbrich in Kassel, who asked stamp artists to contribute their favourite stamp for a travelling exhibition in a box. Two identical sets were assembled, presented in a display box designed to be send and exhibited around the world. The first presentation venue for Olbrich's box was the High School in Kassel, Boumans' box featured at the AKI art academy in Enschede and then travelled to the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam (the museum laminated the cards).

The project was a work in process, cards were added until 1986. This lot contains Boumans's box. Added is an information leaflet about the project with a list of participants (in 1983), and some extra documentation. Artists' contributions by Metallic Avau, Vittore Baroni, Guy Bleus, Paulo Bruscky, Sonja van der Burg, Robin Crozier, Pier van Dijk, Galantai, Claudio Goulart, Klaus Groh, Hetty Huisman, Jupitter-Larsen, Graciela G. Marx, Ruggero Maggi, Willy Scholte, Vigo et al.