Thomas Behling

International Mail Art Exhibition Dedicated to RUGGERO MAGGI
From 19 September to 29 October 2026, the Tasso and Postal History Museum (Cornello dei Tasso, Camerata Cornello, Bergamo) will host the international Mail Art exhibition ‘MAIL ART IN ACTION / FOR RUGGERO MAGGI’.
As an artist, curator and multifaceted figure on the international avant-garde scene, Ruggero Maggi made social, ethical and environmental issues central themes of his artistic practice. The exhibition project showcases works received by the museum in response to an international call for entries. Mail art artists were invited to send a commemorative postcard in honour of Ruggero Maggi, who was recently ‘returned to the sender’, dedicated to his artistic and poetic career.

Throughout the 20th century, some artists began to view everyday objects with fresh eyes. Drawing inspiration from the experiments of the avant-garde movements, letters, postcards, postmarks, stamps and envelopes also became creative tools. It was in this context that Mail Art emerged: an international network of Mail Art artists who utilise postal items and the postal system, transforming them into tools of creative freedom, with ideas travelling beyond the traditional circles of art and the market.

“[…] Mail art can be an extraordinary means of mass communication if it is understood as an action that can be divided into two clearly defined stages:
– as a relationship between one individual and another, or with a more or less limited group of individuals.
– The public exhibition of a mail art initiative can become a form of mass communication, as it can be extremely stimulating and educational even for a lay audience.
Stimulating, because it promotes interpersonal communication, and educational due to the exemplary nature of its diverse, simple and direct technical methods […]”.
(Excerpt from a text on Mail Art by R. Maggi)

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
ANDORRA Julien Rochedreux ARGENTINA Maria Castillo, Floki Gauvry AUSTRIA Monika Lederbauer, Andreas Streicher BELGIUM Ria Bauwens (Frips), H. Heip, Thomas Karz/AYNITL, Merlyn Paridaen, Sjoerd Paridaen, Laurent Wilmet BRAZIL Marcelo Dola, Hugo Pontes, Marcia Rosenberger CANADA Susan Gold, Karl Jirgens, Mailarta, Snappy, Spike Spence, Ed Varney, La Toan Vinh COLOMBIA Tulio Restrepo DENMARK Marina Salmaso FINLAND Anja Mattila-Tolvanen FRANCE Virginie Amat, Christian Burgaud, Véronique Champollion, Michel Della Vedova, Pierre-Yves Freund, Helena Gath, Virginie Loreau, Christophe Masse, Lyza Sahertian GERMANY Thomas Behling, Stefan Brand, Brandstifter, Hans Braumüller, Hans Castrup, Dadanautik (Walter Bachmann), Mask Dannecker, Daughter Fidels, Wolfgang Faller, Thomas Glatz, Klaus Groh, Annegret Heinl, Stefan Heuer, Uwe Höfig, Claudia Liekam, Stephan J. Mitterwieser, Susanne Mitterwieser, Andreas Niederau-Kaiser, PtrziaTicTac, Peter Schubert, Lars Schumacher, Susanne Schumacher, Judith Sturm, Horst Tress, Lutz Wohlrab UNITED KINGDOM Keith Bates, Michael Leigh GREECE Nicolas Malevitsis HUNGARY Peter Abajkovics, Tibor Vass INDIA Renuka Kesaramadu IRAN Neda Mehrjoo ITALY Walter Accigliaro, Dino Aloi, Franco Altobelli, Antonio Amato, Erika Baggini, Franco Barbato, Vittore Baroni, Pier Roberto Bassi, Elisa Battistella, Nicola Bertoglio, Giuseppe Bertolino, Rovena Bocci, Mariella Bogliacino, Maria Bonaduce, Giovanni Bonanno, Adriano Bonari, Anna Boschi, Elisabetta Bosisio, Marzia Maria Braglia, Viviana Buttarelli, Mariangela Cacace, Mirta Caccaro, Alfonso Caccavale, Loredana Cacucciolo, Carla Cantore, Angela Caporaso, Bruno Cassaglia, Francesca Cenciarini, Giuliana Ceretta, Renato Cerisola, Claudio Cignatta, Tiziana Colangelo, Nellì Cordioli, Carmela Corsitto, Carla Crosio, Gianni Cudin, Crescenzio D’Ambrosio, Diana Danelli, Maria Grazia Dapuzzo, Caterina Davinio, Gian Carlo De Leo, Rino De Michele, Fabio De Poli, Albina Dealessi, Domenico „Mimmo“ Di Caterino, Annitta Di Mineo, Franco Di Pede, Giovanna Donnarumma, Graziano Dovichi, Cinzia Farina, Lara Favaro, Gretel Fehr, Ilaria Feoli, Mavi Ferrando, Domenico Ferrara Foria, Marino Ficotto, Mimicha Finazzi (Skinaz), Anna Finetti, Giovanni Fontana, Roberto Formigoni, Nicola Frangione, Giglio Frigerio, Marco Furia, Antonella Gandini, Ornella Garbin, Claudio Gavina, Guido Gelatti, Annamaria Gelmi, Massimiliano Ghidini, Gianni, Lodovico Gierut, Sergio Gioielli, Robert James Hanrahan, I Miradebora, Luigina Iacuzzi, Gennaro Ippolito, Benedetta Jandolo, Evgenia Kaika, Alfonso Lentini, Silvia Lepore, Pino Lia, Oronzo Liuzzi, Maya López Muro, Gian Paolo Lucato, Yves Malbos (M), Paola Marcucci, Max Marra, Maria Grazia Martina, Anna Mascheretti, Anna Maria Matone, Massimo Medola, Alessia Meglio, Moreno Menarin, Luca Miti & Timmy, Fernando Montà, Riccarda Montenero, Giovanni Morgese, Giancarlo Nucci, Paolo Nutarelli, Cristiano Pallara, Linda Paoli, Stefano W.Pasquini, Fabrizio Pavolucci, Giuseppe Pellegrino, Salvatore Pepe, Salvatore Perchinelli, Silvano Pertone, Peter Hide, Marisa Pezzoli, Riccardo Pezzoli, Bruno Pierozzi, Marzia Pollini, Veronique Pozzi Painé, Alessandra Pucci, Rosella Quintini, Gaetano Ricci, Sabina Romanin, Claudio Romeo, Serena Rossi, Fiorenzo Rosso, Lucia Sapienza, Carmela Sarcina, Antonio Sassu, Roberto Scala, Paolo Seghizzi, Elena Sellerio, Luigino Solamito, Alberto Sordi, Cristina Sosio, Lucia Spagnuolo, Antonio Spanedda, Oliana Spazzoli, Celina Spelta, Giovanni und Renata Strada, Piero Tacconi, Camilla Testori, Elsa Testori, Roberto Testori, Larisa Tinta, Elisa Traverso, Ilia Tufano, Emilio Vance, Silvia Venuti, Ada Eva Verbena, Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola, Maria Grazia Zanmarchi, Rolando Zucchini JAPAN Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver, Tohei Mano, Keiichi Nakamura, Jack Seiei MALAYSIA Iszuan Ismail, Luqman Rosnan  MEXIKO Diana Magallon, José Luis Alcalde Soberanes POLEN Andrej Dudek-Durer, Raphael Nadolny PORTUGAL Fernando Aguiar, Cecelia Chapman, Paulo Teles (BroTTas) RUMÄNIEN Ovidiu Petca SERBIEN Nenad Vučkvić SINGAPUR Gloria Khe SPANIEN Sabela Baña, Pedro Bericat, Corporation Semiotica Galega, Francisco Gálvez (Deadwax), Rafael Gonzàlez, Maxima Maria Kinsky, Cesar Reglero, Jaume Rocamora, Valdor, Manuel Xio Blanco SCHWEDEN Henry Grahn Hermunen und Kollegen SCHWEIZ Ueli Sager NIEDERLANDE Ever Arts, Ed Hanssen, Rob Komen, Hans Overvliet, Bert Vanden Berghe TÜRKEI Derya Avci USA Roberta Bartel, Boog (@RtH*Le), Joel Cohen (The Sticker Dude), John Held Jr., GX Jupitter-Larsen, Willie Marlowe, Catherine Mehrl Bennett, Nonlocal Variable, Joey Patrickt, Josh Ronsen, Adam Roussopoulos, Judith Skolnick, Lauryn Welch, Karen Wood, Reid Wood (State of Being).

Museum of Tassos and the Postal History
Via Cornello, 13
24010 Camerata Cornello Bergamo
Italy

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