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1. How and when did you become involved in Mail-Art?

Did become involved in Mail-Art through my Romand friend that has worked with Cavellini in the seventies.

2. Can you give us a short C.V. of your Mail-Art activities from the beginning till now?

1995
Carrara (MS) - "Remembering Giulietta" Accademia di Belle Arti
Cagliari - "Raccontami una Fiaba" DanzaMusicaTeatro
Ballao (CA) - "Artist's Stamp" Biblioteca Comunale di Ballao

1996
Forli - "Mail-Art Prehistory" Archeoexpo 96
Fano -"From Cinema Archeology to Mail-Art" Palazzo Martinozzi Fano

1997
Casarsa della Delizia (PN) - "Augusuto Daolio"
Misano Adriatico - "Dedicato ad Augusto" Comune di Misano Adriatico
Torreglia (PD) - "Mail-Art Censure 1997"
Pergola (PG) - "8° Mostra Internazionale di Arte Postale Citta di Pergola"
Santos (Brasile) - "2° Biennal Internacional de Arte Postal do Colegio Universitas"

1998
Washington (USA) - "Easter Island" Dennis P. Jordan
Firenze - "Ova" EART Studio
Turate (CO) - "Un negativo per il terzo millennio" Turarte / Spazio Media Immagine
Merida (Spagna) - "Como ves Extremadura"
Forli  - "Remembering Assisi" by Lia Garavini
Yorba Linda (USA) - "Brainwaves" by Jill Jones
Portland (USA) - "International Mail-Art Show"
Piove di Sacco (PD) - "Pinocchio: Istruzioni per l'uso" by Cristina Grazioli
Tilburg (Paesi Bassi) - "On your own device" by ColorMii
Madrid (Spagna) - "2° Muestra Internacional Poesia Visual y Mail-Art" by Unniversal del Libro
Hamburg (Germania) - "Port of Mail-Art" by Hans Braumuller
Herzelya (Israel) - "The Moon" and "Circles"
Kelowna (Canada) - "Hello Bicycle Mail-Art show" Okanagan University College
Annaberg-Buchholz (Germania) - "All around Pyramids" Kunst Keller
Montevideo (Uruguay) - "Chiapas: La Primer Revolucion Social del III Milenio" by Clemente Padin
Mosca (Russia) - "Art - Manege '98" Artistamp Exhibition by Jas Felter
Lussemburgo - "Packaging Art 1998" Francis Fan Mail
Florianopolis (Brasile) - "50 Anos da Declaracao Universal Dos Direitos Humanos" by Rosa Ribas Marinho
Valencia (Spagna) - "Libros Libres" Rivista Idem

1999
Geelong (Australia) - "Post it! Send a Memento!" by David Dellafiora
Eclagazan (Andorra) - "A tea for two at two forty" by Jean Marc Rastorier
Castel S. Pietro Terme (BO) - "Happy Birthday Castel S. Pietro Terme" by Anna Boschi
Francoforte (Germania) - "Kreuz-Aktionen" by Wilfried Nold
Oslo (Norway) - "H²O" by Guttorm Nord
Oak Park (USA) - "Second Mail-Art Show" by Expressions Graphis Gallery
Banska Bystryca (Slovacchia) - "Mirror of Netland"
Buenos Aires (Argentina) - "Dia del Arte Correo" Vortice Argentina
Echternach (Lussemburgo) - "Ireland Today" Editions PHI
Oaxaca (Messico) - "Arte Postal Hacia el Nuevo Milenio" Museo Filatelia Oaxaca 

2000
Santiago de Chile (Chile) - "Crosses of the Earth" Museum of Contemporary Art Santiago de Chile
Cherbourg (Francia) - "Artist Stamps du mond entier" La Poste Navale de Cherbourg
Bassano del Grappa (VI) - "Il Tavolo del piccolo Iconoclasta" Museo Citta di Bassano "Sentieri Interrotti"
Moguer (Spagna) - "II Bienal Internacional de Arte Correo" Fundacion Juan Ramon Jimenez
Munchen (Germania) - "Taubenturm/Turm"
Holguin (Cuba) - "IberoAmerica: tradicion, Modernidad y Postmodernidad" Centro Provencial Artes Plasticas
Tielrode (Belgio) - "Mysteries of the World" Sztuka Fabryka

2001
Valencia (Spagna) - "Spremi le tue idee Mail Art Orange" Fundacio Publica Municipal
Tielrode (Belgio) - "Mortuarium" Sztuka Fabryka

3. What are your specific activities within Mail-Art?

I have realized: Artistamps, Postcards, Visual Poetry, ... but I love specially to realize the Artists' Postal Books.

4. Why do you do Mail-Art?

The Mail-Art is very important work for different reasons: it is a creative exercise about the materials and the forms; it permit a free expression of his various states of mind, and its message reach a universal dimension.

5. What happens with the Mail-Art you receive?

I work out a new design

6. Do you have a Mail-Art archive?

Yes, only for my works