Ilse Ermen

Another postcard from ILSE ERMEN. Life is good! Ilse took the motive of an original postcard from Ann Arbour, Michigan / 1995

Corinne Laroche

A postcard from CORINNE LAROCHE, sent from Paris, France. Corinne is a french artist born in 1957. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she lives and works in Berlin and Paris. In 2008 she was awarded the city of Saint-Ouen prize for the arts. Her work was shown in 2009 by the galleries Jordan-Seydoux (Berlin-Paris-Zürich) and Fruehsorge contemporary drawings (Berlin). Recently her works have entered the collections of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Artotek and the Artothèque of Angers.

I met Corinne through the Anonymous Drawings Project, at several drawing related art openings in in Berlin, a the art fair Drawing Now in Paris, at private dinners, over coffee and cake, in our studios and elsewhere.

I admire Corinne's ability to create carefully drawn structures and systems without loosing visual lightness and ease.

Ilse Ermen

A second postacard from ILSE ERMEN, sent from Lampaul Plouarzel, France.  I made a rough translation form German: "fernweh is my very own motivation, i wanted to go away early in my life, only away from here, the lower rhine. someday, finally, around my 20th birthday, after I laying on a sack at home for one year, I packed my little suitcase and took the train to paris, to register for the entrance examination for the local art academy (which was not quite state of the art, already back then), beach the accepted me over there, i stayed for a while, approx. 6 years. during this entire time and the following period I travelled foam a to b  more frequently: across europe and the near east, south america. (although i never pounded the numbers of all the things one should have seen, i hate tourism) movement became my second nature, and if somebody suggests me to travel for recreation i can only laugh. 4 weeks at the very same place are a recreation already. returning to the village, like many people strive for their retirement, would be the equivalent of a death sentence to me."

Ilse i a conceptual artist with a very close realtionship to language, words and a postcards and many other things.  I always enjoy converstions with Ilse, not only because of her very subtle and intelligent sense of humor.  She really has an eye for the concealed, but nevertheless interesting oddities of life and language. I already recieved another Fernweh postcard from Ilse: here. 
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Matthew Rose

A postcard from MATTHEW ROSE, sent from Paris, France. It is a tribute to the collage and correspondence artist Ray Johnson.

Matthew  is an amazing collage artist, born in the USA, living in Paris. I once visited him in Paris, together with my friends Nike and Inken. It was a memorable evening. Laughter, chicken, baked potates, red wine and music - and Matthew's art covering every cm of the  studio walls. His website: http://matthewrosestudio.net  and the Blog: http://matthewrosestudio.blogspot.com/

Ilse Ermen

A postcard from ILSE ERMEN, a swiss artist, based in Berlin, France and many other places in the world.

stamp on cardboard by ILSE ERMEN