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stempelkunst / stamp-art


Stempelkunst – Stampk Art is a foundational work within the Mail Art movement and the visual poetry scene of the 1970s, edited by the Dutch conceptual artist and critic Gerrit Jan de Rook.

The edition was published in Utrecht in 1975 under the exp/press label. Due to its importance as a compendium of artists using rubber stamps, a second edition followed that same year, with an expanded version titled simply Stamp Art released in 1976 by Daylight Press.

It serves as an anthology featuring over a hundred international artists. Notable names include the Mexican artist Ulises Carrión (who collaborated closely with De Rook), Francisco Pino, Robert Filliou, Anna Banana, Endre Tót, and Genesis P-Orridge.

The book documents a period when the rubber stamp transformed from a bureaucratic tool into a poetic and democratic medium, allowing for the fast, cheap reproduction of artistic ideas outside the traditional gallery system.

Although each artist’s contribution is unique, the end result is an artists’ book that crosses borders both conceptually and geographically.