George Maciunas
Fluxpost (Aging Men)
New York City, USA: Fluxus, 1975
27.8 x 21.5 cm.
Edition size unknown
Less well known than his later set of postage stamps titled Smiles (1975), this offset work on perforated gummed paper consists of a forty-two portraits of men. The image originates in a flea market photograph depicting more than a hundred members of the Eastern Synod, attending their 159th annual meeting at St. John’s Reformed Church, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, October 24th, 1905 [below].
Maciunas discarded half of the portraits and arranged the remaining in order of their imagined age (which seems to be based entirely on the amount of facial hair each sports).
The stamps were produced by Fluxus and also appeared in Fluxpack 3 [above, centre]. The work is included in numerous collections, including the Whitney and MoMA.
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