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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

maandag 13 juni 2011

GAMELANG ORCHESTRA FOR PEACE, 23/08/1879



Collage A4 with graphic materials from the Belgian zine European Illustrations, edition of 23 August 1879, destination still to be determined.

A gamelang orchestra is typical Indonesian. Indonesia was a colony of the Netherlands and called "East India" at that time.
During a fair in Arnhem, the Netherlands the gamelang orchestra had to perform (they look quite happy, don't they? Doubleclick on image to enlarge).
The comments in the zine of that period are also quite funny:
They talk about "weird sounds without any melody", "gamelang means noise in Indian tongue", the gamelang music (?) is compared with that developed in "Tunesia or Morocco" and "some think this is awful music" and others think this is "nice, soft and melodic".
Wooha, colonial music critics are as "fantastic" as the art critics. Give me a canon, please, give me a canon, so I can blow these assholes away. Okay, they are all dead now, so nature has had its sweet revenge.
Oh yes, that's how ships of the enemy were destroyed in 1879. Technology, you know, the road to progress, isn't it mister-president Kris Peeters? (only understandable for Flemish who follow petty politics).
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