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Similarly to Artpool's, Mike Bidner's collecting technique was to exchange self-made stamps and organize exhibitions in the mail art network. Bidner's collection in 1988 consisted of 10,000 stamps as well as information about the artists. The special characteristics of Bidner's self-designed artistamps' were that he personilized the pictures and motifs collected mainly from newspapers. He then added text or his logo, after having excluded the parts that implied their origin. This stamp-making technique refers to the philatelist's philosophy, because not only did Bidner deal with the fax-art and different electronic picture-alterations, but he also had an important philatelic collection of non-artistamps . His attraction to the artistamp picture grew when in 1982 the catalogue of the World Art Post (cc) project by Artpool, with 756 stamp-pictures, fell into his hands. He was able to sell his valuable philatelic stamp collection in order to start new activities in the field of artistamps. He introduced new and more efficient techniques of correspondence, he wrote his letters with the computer and arranged the received stamp-pictures in a database. In his letters he sent explanations about his work and he surprised his fellow artists with statistics. For instance, he made a statistic about the number of stamp-artists worldwide, which shows that USA is in first place with 265 artists, Hungary is second with 152 artists and third is Canada with 68 artists. The canadians call
Bidner the pioneer of artistamp, and today they regret terribly that
nobody in Canada was willing to host his collection, and it was instead
bequeathed to Artpool. (translated from Hungarian by Márta Antal) Mike Bidner on the web http://www.artistamp-inc.com/history/bidner_hist.htm http://artshuttle.com/bidnertp.htm http://jas.faximum.com/asg/asg_0184.html MIKE BIDNER | ÉLETRAJZ | ARTISTAMPEX | ARTISTAMPS | CINDERELLA topics | call | archives
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