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Annual Greetings
Towards the end of 2001 I decided that my company Kunstkontakt should appear at customers' and prospectives' – friends of the arts – once a year with a greeting card. When would it be suitable? Christmas was rejected for being too private, also the western end of year threatened to be suffocated by those mountains of greeting cards.
The idea to address good wishes to friends of the enterprise at the beginning of the Chinese New Year arose from my interest in Far Eastern philosophy and way of life. Gerd Marschand whom I exposed this intention to had recently studied Laotse's writings again and eagerly joined in the project. Our fist dispatch was effected at the beginning of March 2002 with a slight delay for the year of the horse which was followed-up by goat, monkey, rooster, dog, pig and since February 6 the rat is the character of the year 2008. First sent out in a small photocopied edition in German only, the number of our greeting card's fans soon increased to such an extent that for some years now a digitally printed version in German and English leaves our office.
When buffalo, tiger, hare, dragon and snake will have made their way through the next years one Kunstkontakt-cycle of twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac will be completed at the end of January 2014. May they protect us all in peace and good health!