is a
mail art
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ist. He was responsible for the
Brain Cell
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mail art project, which he began in June 1985 and retains thousands of members in more than 80 countries, e.g. Hans Braumüller,
Theo Breuer
Theo Breuer (born 30 March 1956) is a German poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher.
Life and work
Theo Breuer was born in Bürvenich, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany and educated at Cologne University where he studied German an ...
,
Michael Leigh or Litsa Spathi. In August 2001 he began the
Fractal Portrait Project. He has taught art to school children for more than 25 years.
Cohen discovered
mail art
Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It initially developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence Schoo ...
through the
Canadian
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artist
Byron Black
Byron Hamish Black (born 6 October 1969) is a former touring professional tennis and Davis Cup player for Zimbabwe.
Personal life
He is the son of Donald Black and Velia Black and brother to Wayne Black and Cara, who were also professional ten ...
. Early work by Cohen is a mixture of traditional Japanese imagery, contemporary icons, and numbers, as well as his signature, the letter "C".
In 1997
Guy Bleus
Guy Bleus (born October 23, 1950) is a Belgian artist, archivist and writer. He is associated with olfactory art, visual poetry, performance art and the mail art movement.
His work covers different areas, including administration (which he cal ...
organised a solo exhibition of Cohen's mail art work at the ''E-Mail Art Archives'' in the Centre for Visual Arts (now
Z33) in Hasselt (Belgium).
[''Ryosuke Cohen (Japan)'', Cultuurnieuws - Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium, June 1997, p.5]
Cohen's family name is conventionally romanized as Kōen, but on the advice of a friend, he adopted the
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spelling 'Cohen'. He is not a
Kohen
Kohen ( he, , ''kōhēn'', , "priest", pl. , ''kōhănīm'', , "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronites or Aaronides. Levitical priests or ''kohanim'' are traditionally b ...
.
References
External links
Archivio ConzRyosuke Cohen Home PageFractal Portrait ProjectBrain Cell Compilation
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1948 births
Living people
Japanese contemporary artists
People from Osaka Prefecture