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Sztuka Fabryka (Geert De Decker)
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- Biografia
- E’ nato a Temse, Belgio, il 21 febbraio del 1969.
- Ha frequentato vari corsi alla scuola d’arte Sint-Lucas a Gent.
- Opera con lo pseudonimo di "Sztuka Fabryka". Fa disegni, collage digitale, timbri-francobolli-banconote d’artista, ATC, adesivi e gadgets, fanzine ed altro.
- Dal 1988 organizza ogni anno in primavera a St. Niklaas (Belgio) il Festival Independent Music & Arts con musica, video, performance e Mail Art con mostra di un giorno durante la quale mailartisti belgi (come Guido Vermeulen, Berndt Reichert, Frips, Marc Coene, Luc Fierens, Johan Van Geluwe, Jose Vandenbroucke, Micheline Vanderbeke) incontrano mailartisti da molte parti del mondo (per esempio Giancarlo Da Lio dall’ Italia, Reid Wood e Buz Blurr dagli USA, Dawn Redwood dall’Inghilterra, Henning Mittendorf e Karl F. Hacker dalla Germania, Remy Penard e Pascal Lenoir dalla Francia, Ko de Jonge e Ad Breedveld dall’Olanda, Colette e Gunther Ruch dalla Svizzera).
- Nel maggio 1995 crea 'Sztuka Fabryka Gallery', (www.sztuka-fabryka.be), sito web sulla Mail Art, versione elettronica del suo archivio.
- Ha curato alcuni progetti di Mail Art.
- Dall’agosto 2001 è editore di "Mail-Art Encyclopaedia", progetto senza scadenza online, ricerca nella storia della Mail Art.
- Ha fondato "Hotel Volzet" osservatorio su quanto accade sull’arte alternativa, con Bart Warnier e Nico Van Cleemput, con i quali organizza il Festival Independent Music & Arts.
(testo italiano e sintesi di Tiziana Baracchi, da materiale fornito direttamente dall’artista)
- GEERT DE DECKER was born on February 21st, 1969 in Temse, Belgium.
- In the eighties he attended Sint-Lucas artschool, in Gent.
- He works as 'Sztuka Fabryka.
- Sztuka Fabryka artworks are: digital collage, stamp art, eraser carving, rubberstamps, stencil graffiti, artist trading cards, fluxus bucks, artistamps, performance, design, layout, logo design, stickers, music, video art, miscellaneous, graphical art, writings, visual poetry, papier maché, gadgets, urban sculpture, …
- Since its creation in 1988, the "Independent Arts"-Festival has grown into an international known event for any form of creativity and to create a meeting place where Belgian Mailartists (as Guido Vermeulen, Berndt Reichert, Frips, Marc Coene, Luc Fierens, Johan Van Geluwe, Jose Vandenbroucke, Micheline Vanderbeke) meet international Mailartists (as Giancarlo Da Lio from Italy, Reid Wood and Buz Blurr from USA, Dawn Redwood from England, Henning Mittendorf and Karl F. Hacker from Germany, Remy Penard e Pascal Lenoir from France, Ko de Jonge and Ad Breedveld from Holland, Colette and Gunther Ruch from Switzerland).
- On May 1995 the first issue of the "Sztuka Fabryka Gallery" (www.sztuka-fabryka.be) went on the internet, website about Mail-Art.
- This website is the electronic version of the Sztuka Fabryka Archive.Curator of several international Mail-Art projects with exhibition one day long at the Festival.Editor and publisher of the "Mail-Art Encyclopaedia", an online ongoing project since August 2001.
- The "Mail-Art Encyclopaedia" is a research in the history of Mail-Art.
- "Hotel Volzet" is an art organisation with its roots in international networks. It is founded by Geert De Decker with Bart Warnier and Nico Van Cleemput and they together organize the yearly "Independent Arts"-Festival.
(from material supplied directly from the artist)
- Web site: www.sztuka-fabryka.be
- Links: www.guzzardi.it/arte/archiviomailart/artistimailart/sztukafabryka.html
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