First Biennial of Postal Art, Latin America, the Caribbean and the World Joined

“LATIN AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN AND THE WORLD UNITED POSTAL ART BIENNIAL”

Within the framework of celebrating 200 years of diplomatic relations and friendship between Brazil and Mexico 2024

The First Biennial of Postal Art in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United World is an Artistic Action for Peace, which has the purpose of consolidating the links of friendship, solidarity, and empathy between different cultures, as well as between creators and different artistic expressions, to celebrate 200 years of diplomatic relations and friendship that were officially established on March 9, 1825 between Mexico and Brazil. Therefore, the Regional Executive Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean, (RELAC) of the International Association of Art, IAA, NGO in official partnership with UNESCO, issues this

 

ANNOUNCEMENT TO

The artists affiliated with the National Committees of the Latin American and Caribbean Region of: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Peru and Venezuela, and members of the Committee World Executive: Korea, Poland, Serbia, Latvia, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany, of the IAA, NGO in official partnership with UNESCO to participate in the “First Biennial of Postal Art, Latin America, the Caribbean and the World Joined“, Artists who wish to participate must create two works of Postal Art, one for Brazil and the other for Mexico. The works that meet the requirements will be exhibited at the Museo dos Correios de Brasilia in Brazil, and at the Museo del Palacio Postal in Mexico City.

 

REQUIREMENTS

• Make the work of postal art, based on a poem by a poet of Brazilian or Mexican
origin, which may be included in full or a fragment within the work.
Consultation link for poets from the National and International Academy of Poetry
A.C.: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NEDhWaQ3MSruz3UMMtTKMunt4cKSOYiZ?usp=
sharing
• Include the postal stamp and/or postage stamp, as well as the name of the artist,
country, the title of the work, technique, year, email address and/or website of the
author.
• The techniques to use: Drawing, Painting, Collage, Photography, Textile Art,
Engraving, (Screen printing, Intaglio, Dry Point, Etching, Lithography, Woodcut,
Monotype) Digital Art, Mixed technique, on paper, cardboard, or canvas.
• Due to the museographic proposal, works on rigid or heavy supports will not be
accepted.
• The only format for the postal artwork whether horizontal or vertical is A4 size.
Letter sheet: (21 X 28.7 cm.)
• Send the works to the respective National Committees, who will make the
selection and then send them to Brazil and Mexico. No works sent will be accepted
without prior selection by their National Committees.

• The National Committees will select 10 or up to 15 works for each country,
which they will send in a single package.
• The National Committees of Brazil and Mexico will receive the packages with the
works of postal art at the following addresses:

 

Date of reception of works in Brazil: From August 5 to 20, 2024

Inauguration date of the Postal Art Biennial in Brazil: September 25, 2024. At the Museo dos Correios de Brasilia in Brazil.

Reception date in Mexico: From August 20 to September 6, 2024

Opening date of the Postal Art Biennial in Mexico: October 9, 2024, 6:30 p.m. Postal

Palace Museum of Mexico City, address: Tacuba 1, and Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas, Centro Histórico,Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc,CDMX.

For any matter related to this call, please contact the email of the National Committee of Mexico: mexicoartac@gmail.com

And from the National Committee of Brazil to the emails:

contacto@sinapespaiap.com.br
pacodeassis@ciaartecultura.com.br

ATTENTION

Only for Members of the AIAP World Executive Committee: you have the option of sending only by email, the images of your work of postal art in 300dpi jpeg file to reproduce at A4 size in Mexico and Brazil

Participants in the First Biennial of Postal Art in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United World will receive a certificate of participation, the virtual catalog and videos of the inaugural event in Brazil and Mexico.

At the end of the exhibition, the works will be sent to other cultural spaces in Mexico and Brazil.

Aspects not provided for in this call will be resolved by the Regional Executive Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean of the IAA.

 

Brazil / Mexico, April 26, 2024