Reviews

by Ray Olson, Booklist, August 2001

Sick to death of pop art and its aesthetic pranks a la Marcel Duchamp, who exhibited a urinal as a specimen of found art? Then give a gander to Thompson and Hernandez de Luna's playful fake postage, which the two artists proudly display not just in perforated-sheet form but also on pieces of mail, scored by the cancellation marks that indicate their successful transit through more than one country's postal system. The stamps imagery is outrageous- a nude woman's crotch (Courbet's 1866 painting, The Origin of the World), a marijuana plant, donkeys copulating ("Bill's Party Train"), sequential depictions of the Titanic ("Going," "Going," "Going," and "Gone"), a man and woman duking it out ("Support Domestic Violence"), penises ("Tom," "Dick," and "Harry"), and so forth - but highly amusing. If what it depicts doesn't bring a smile, then the audacity of sending real mail adorned with it should. Both artists discuss their works raison d'etre, and a stamp collector, a fellow unofficial stamp artist, and an art historian weight in, too.

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