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Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
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In summer 2000, on
the occasion of Johannes Gutenberg's 600th Birthday and in
memory of his invention of book printing the German town Mainz
organised the international Mail-Art Project Happy Birthday,
Johannes. Ben Patterson is patron of this project.
About 700 contributions by 540 artists from all over the world
are presented in the Gutenberg-Pavillion in Mainz during the
summer of 2000. |
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Böhm contributes Johannes
2000 and, together with Michael Orth, Geschichte
geschrieben to Happy Birthday, Johannes.
The left photo shows Böhms contribution, the right shows
two pages from Die Bütows, the book used in the contribution
by Orth&Böhm. The readable part of the text is "The
Bütows reject people who are afraid of dogs." |
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