Ulises Carrión

Ulises Carrión (1941, San Andres Tuxtla, Mexico - 1989, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), considered as "perhaps Mexico’s most important conceptual artist",[1] is widely known for his decisive role in defining and conceptualising the artistic genre of artists' book through his manifesto The New Art of Making Books (1975). But his awareness and interest in new forms of art and innovative operations suggests that he was active in most of the artistic fields of his time. His activities include the creation of artworks, the development of theory, and the generation of multiple independent initiatives. Carrión's works include not only a great number of bookworks - as he named artists' books - and unique artworks, but also performances, film, video, and sound works. Carrión also did several editing, publishing, and curation projects, a couple of notable public projects, and various significant works and initiatives within the international community of mail artists during its most creative period. Equally essential for his artistic career is his engagement in several artists' run spaces. All his artistic activities are based off of and effected by his highly elaborate theories.[2]

Career

Carrión was born in San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico in 1941. After studying philosophy and literature at the National University of Mexico,[3] he started his career as a successful and respected young writer. In 1964 he received a grant for further studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Shortly afterwards he went to study at the Goethe Institute in Achenmühle, Germany, and to Leeds, England, where he studied English language and literature at the University and graduated with a diploma. In 1972 he definitively settled in Amsterdam, an open and cosmopolitan city with a lot of artistic innovation and international exchanges. Here he became co-founder and member of the In-Out Center (1972-1975). In 1975, he founded Other Books and So, the first space of its kind devoted to all kind of artists’ publications, which in 1979 became the Other Books And So Archive. He was also the co-founder of the Vereniging van Videokunstenaars, later Time Based Arts (1983-1993) in Amsterdam, NL. Ulises Carrión died in 1989 in Amsterdam.[4]

Recent Reception

Due to a certain cult of the overlooked and underestimated (post-)1960s avant-garde, Ulises Carrión has undergone an extraordinary appreciation in a few years. Exhibitions of his works and a flood of references to his artistic strategies and theories in current art works, essays, conferences, as well as newly annotated, listed, translated, and edited works give proof of the widespread reception today.[5] The widespread reception of his manifesto The New Art of Making Books[6] made him the central reference for the definition of the concept of the artist book. Also his bookshop gallery Other Books and So became, despite its short duration, a mythologized paragon. Ulises Carrión has long been recognized as an important conceptual compatriot to artists in Latin America.[7]

Exhibitions

Artist books and other writings (Incomplete Selection)
  • Carrión Ulises, De Alemania, Mexico, 1970
  • Carrión Ulises, Ed., From Bookworks to Mailworks, other books and so, Amsterdam, 1978
  • Carrión Ulises, Cres, Self-published, Amsterdam, 1978
  • Carrión Ulises, The Muxlows, Verlaggalerie Leaman, Düsseldorf, 1978
  • Carrión Ulises, Mirror box, Stempelplaats Amsterdam, 1979
  • Carrión Ulises, Rubber Stamp Books, Lomholt Formular Press, Odder, 1979
  • Carrión Ulises, Namen en adressen, Agora - Studio, Maastricht, 1980
  • Carrión Ulises, Second Thoughts, VOID Distributors, Amsterdam, 1980
  • Carrión Ulises and Agius Juan J., Ed., Beeld Boeken, Galerie da Costa, Amsterdam, 1980
  • Carrión Ulises and Crozier Robin, et al, Kunst in der Öffentlichkeit, Marode Editions, Würzburg, 1981
  • Carrión Ulises, The New Art of Making Books. Nicosia : Aegean editions, 2001.

References
  1. de la Torre, Monica. (2013 Winter) "Ulises Carrión's The Poet's Tongue" BOMB. Issue 122. Retrieved 03 October 2015.
  2. Schraenen, Guy (1992) We have Won! Haven't We?, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, 11-49
  3. Conwell, Donna. (2002) "Personal Worlds or Cultural Strategies? Archived 2015-10-21 at the Wayback Machine" Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Retrieved 03 October 2015.
  4. Schraenen, Guy (2016) A Story to Remember. In: Dear Reader. Don't Read., Exhibition catalogue, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2016
  5. Aden, Maike (2017): Carrión Carries On. In: Journal of Artists' Books (JAB), No. 40, Fall 2016, 6-12
  6. Carrión, Ulises (1975) The New Art of Making Books, Kontexts (Amsterdam), no. 6–7.
  7. Aden, Maike (2016) The Posthumous Reception of Ulises Carrión. In: Guy Schraenen (ed.) Dear reader. Don't read., catalogue, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2016
  8. Seara.com. "Fundação de Serralves - Serralves". Serralves (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  9. "The Showroom | Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners: Works by Ulises Carrión". www.theshowroom.org. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  10. "Ulises Carrión | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.