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M.A.D. MAIL ART DAY 16 OCTOBER by Ruggero Maggi
MAM Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art Montecarotto (AN)
16 October 2025 | 20 January 2026 Opening | Thursday 16 October 2025 | at 18.00
Once again this year is renewed at MAM Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art in Montecarotto (AN) and at Museum of MUSINF
Information in Senigallia the appointment with M.A.D. Mail Art Day | 16 October, launched at the end of 2022 by Ruggero Maggi to remember Ray Johnson, born on October 16 and defined as "the most famous unknown artist in New York". By founding the New York Correspondence School in 1962, with which he mocked the various correspondence art schools that were springing up in the US at the time, he marked with this explosive initial moment, the Big Bang of Mail Art.
The MAM Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art of Montecarotto has been active since 1984. This museum was conceived and founded by Carlo Emanuele Bugatti with the Municipal Administration of Montecarotto, within an unprecedented project of a Widespread Museum on the territory of the then Provincial Authority of Ancona. In fact, the Museum collaborates historically and permanently with the MUSINF of Senigallia inaugurated in 1981, with the Nori dè Nobili Municipal Museum of Tre Castelli and with various other museums in the Marche region and in all the national territory.
On Thursday 16 October at 6.00 pm, will be present at the inauguration of the event the Mayor of Montecarotto Giuseppe Paoloni, the Mayor of Senigallia Massimo Olivetti, the Director of MAM e curator Stefano Schiavoni and the artist Ruggero Maggi
Dedicated to Clemente Padin, who recently passed away.
The event, curated by Ruggero Maggi and Stefano Schiavoni, presents various projects that explore the world of Mail Art.
• THE MAILBOX | AN INTERACTIVE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM
Already for some time in Italy, but also everywhere in the world, there is the tendency to close and remove mailboxes. The immoderate use of social media and email is relegating the “normal” mail to an increasingly obsolete communicational use, forgetting how important instead is also the tactile, visual and in some cases even olfactory "solicitations". Not to mention the pleasure one receives in opening an envelope sent perhaps from the other side of the world and the "mystery" that is revealed as soon as it is opened. Now all this is being abolished in favor of faster dissemination and at the expense of a more personal and less homogenized communication, so: let's the mailboxes mouths! Once irreplaceable elements of the urban context, but now considered obsolete and useless. What will be the next victim to be sacrificed on the altar of modernity and progress? the post office?! A place that will survive perhaps only as a sales outlet for various items and services, like any bank, like an insurance office... anything but a post office, thus effectively betraying the primary function for which it was created. Who among us posting a letter or postcard in a mailbox has not felt a thrill in entrusting his or her message to a hole, the inside of which cannot be seen? A bit like inserting one's hand into the famous Mouth of Truth, with the feeling of never being able to take it out again!
In Piazza Bocca della Verità is the ancient marble mascherone, one of Rome's most famous symbols, placed since 1632 in the pronaos of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. The marble disk has the features of a male face with a pierced beard, eyes, nose, and mouth-perhaps of Jupiter, a faun, or a river deity-flanked by