Ryosuke Cohen's BRAIN CELL

'Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cell Ryosuke Cohen: Brain Cell

In the Mail Art network to exchange a work from one to another isn’t everything. It is most important to join much more people of other countries. Sending to B from A, to C from B, to D or E from C, E sends back to A or D sends back to B or C. This is the way how the network spreads. Once, people believed that art is the product of the privileged classes called artists, so they put up the framed pictures or priced them unreasonably as sales contracts. In their mind they think art is material. I think art is information. The personality and creative power of all the persons who follow it spread as information. We positively use the stamps and the envelopes of others. We are glad to use or offer them. There is no need for us to stress our own originality. It is a change of 180° from the past. The Mail Art network is the most wonderful movement that can solve the various problems of present art and artists: authority, exchange of information, too notional art, mistaken holiness and so on.

Now I am just like a space pilot who is travelling with a spaceship. I am looking for new stars and going on a trip. Each star is a small one compared to the space. The Earth and the Moon, Mars and Saturn are each other different. In the same way, every star has its own difference (personality and originality). But it doesn’t have the light and weight that can control all the space.

Well, I’ll title my work “Brain Cell”, because the structure of a brain through a microscope looks like the diagram of the Mail Art network. Thousands of Neurons clung and piled up together are just like the Mail Art network, I believe.

September 1985, Ryosuke Cohen'

Brain Cell by Ryosuke Cohen (Full image)