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réf. 9232Many black & white illus. 15 leaves printed on rectos only except for one leaf. Small folio 295 x 210 mm. pictorial wrappers fastened with black plastic clasps. From verso of the first leaf: Amsterdam: Agora Studio Sept. 1980. A rare exhibition catalogue printed in an edition of 200. Carrión 1941-89 devised this as a retrospective of his works and communications with his collaborators for which he investigated the use of names and addresses. This catalogue with the introduction in parallel Dutch and English is fully illustrated with reproductions of Carrión’s earlier works and performances including pieces such as Arguments 1973 Homage to Van Gogh 1975 and The Muxlows 1978. A near fine copy of this scarce catalogue; some sunning at the edges. WorldCat records just five examples in North America. ⧠Quant aux Livres / On Books 2008 p. 210. unknown books
réf. 9234Black & white illus. 25 pp. & colophon. 4to black printed softcover title on spine. Amsterdam: Galerie Da Costa 1980. One of 500 copies a scarce exhibition catalogue with an introduction composed by Carrión 1941-89. The catalogue provides a survey of Galerie Da Costa a publisher of artists’ books and livres d’artistes managed by Juan J. Agius. Agius published two of Carrión’s bookworks: Verzamelde Werken 1980 and Sistemas 1983. Carrión writes: “This catalogue illustrates the publishing activity developed by Juan Agius from Da Costa Gallery during the last 4 years. Such an activity takes place in a cultural context that is already familiar with the production of books by visual artists but where it has not yet been decided what the defining characteristics of this type of work are.” With pictures and bibliographical information on bookworks by François Righi Adriaan Nette Francesc Guitart Manuel Menán Agius Federico Sanguineti François Bouillon Lia Rondelli Ben Sleeuwenhoek Roberto Comini Alessandro Algardi and Jean Zuber. Near fine copy. Withdrawn stamp of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Library on title-page. unknown books
réf. 9235Audiocassette tape printed labels on side A & B housed in a plastic case. Orig. red paper pictorial liner. Amsterdam: Time Based Arts 1984. Rare audiocassette of a Carrión sound work; unrecorded by WorldCat. It was originally recorded in June 1983 and then issued through Time Based Arts the following year. “Trios & Boleros 1983 was produced as a part of a series by a number of artists writers and composers. The Dutch public broadcasting company VPRO allocated broadcast time to individual unrelated productions under the umbrella title of ‘Art on the Radio the Radio as Art’. No mathematical text analysis here: Ulises narrates the history of the bolero defining the classic form identifying the origins and greatest interpreters. He notes the impact of Cuban and Caribbean music on the genre… “The lecture is delivered against the musical background provided by these artists whose music filled his home…The program closes with the lyrics ‘Caminemos tal vez veremos después Walk on maybe we’ll meet again.’”–Martha Hawley ”Jacaranda Ulises Carrión and Sound” in Martha Hellion ed. Ulises Carrión: ¿Mundos personales o estrategias culturales 2003 p. 89. Near fine; one of the cassette labels is partially coming loose. ⧠G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 128 & 141. unknown books
réf. 9236Color printed on both sides. Illustrated postcard. Washington D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts 1982. Postcard invitation for Carrión’s screening of video works at Washington Project for the Arts where he was an artist-in-residence. In the late 1970s he had begun to experiment with time-based media. In fine condition. ⧠G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 p. 136 pictured. unknown books
réf. 9254One illus. Single folded sheet =4 pp. San Francisco: La Mamelle 1981. The program for the 1981 performance of 6 plays at La Mamelle an artist-run space in San Francisco. Two fellow stamp and mail artists Bill Gaglione and Darlene Domel participated in this rendition of Carrión’s work appropriating lines from six plays. Carrión first performed 6 plays in 1975 and in 1976 it was made into an artist’s book with an edition of 100 copies. Interestingly the program here lists the plays in a different order from the book. Gaglione’s alternate persona dadaland has contributed an illustration for one of the plays on page 3. Near fine. ⧠G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 p. 144. unknown books
réf. 9261Two sheets printed on rectos only and program card. Stockholm: Fylkingen 1979. A small group of materials related to Carrión’s appearance at Fylkingen in February 1979. Fylkingen is an artist-run Swedish organization for the support and distribution of experimental music and art. We include here: a program of Carrión’s performance on 17 February; a brief biography of Carrión and Yvonne Rainer who performed two days later; and a card listing Fylkingen performances from February to May 1979. All in fine condition. ⧠G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 p. 144. unknown books
réf. 9374Seven black & white illus. 11 pp. Small 4to 210 x 150 mm. pictorial printed wrappers staple-bound. Schiedam Netherlands: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 1981. An uncommon exhibition catalogue published by the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam; the show was curated by Ulises Carrión 1941-89 and the books displayed came from his personal archive the Other Books and So Archive. By 1978 Carrión had closed his intrepid Amsterdam bookstore Other Books and So and converted it into an archive of artists’ books. This is one of a number of exhibitions on artists’ books that the artist organized; others took place in Iceland Poland Denmark and several locations across the Netherlands. This catalogue features an illuminating interview with Carrión in Dutch and English in which he spells out his criteria for what qualifies as a “bookwork” “an object book” and a “book object.” Describing the conception and production of his own bookworks he says: “When realizing my works I’m strongly influenced by my literary background I think. I’m constantly trying to get rid of it. Sometimes I succeed sometimes not. I try to reduce the book as much as possible to its essence – a sequence of signs. To me sequence implies time it means you cannot perceive a book in one time or moment. The second element is visual by nature – that which you see when you open the book. I try as much as possible to use signs other than literary even other than verbal. That’s why I use photography or rubber stamps. I’m very conscious of the paper. I strive towards an evident unfolding of the book. I don’t mean that the message should be evident but rather the book’s structure how the book fits together. You are free to interpret it as you wish but there must be some sort of recognizable structure. I’m not talking of just a pile of loose sheets.” Carrión selected artists’ books by Juan Agius Anna Banana Guglielmo Cavellini Robin Crozier Claudio Goulart Kristjan Gudmundsson Davi Det Hompson Jiri Kolar David Mayor Bruno Munari Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Roth Ed Ruscha Takako Saito Jiri Valoch Lawrence Weiner etc. etc. A full listing of the works is found at the very end. In near fine condition. Printed in an edition of 350 copies. ⧠Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 174 & 214 pictured. unknown books
réf. 9558Illus. throughout. 4 printed sheets orig. craft paper wrappers staple-bound. Hou Denmark: Egmont Højskolen Feb. 1979. A scarce exhibition catalogue dedicated to books with rubber-stamped illustrations curated by Ulises Carrión 1941-89. His introduction is printed in Danish and English: “Time pressures didn’t allow for a wide research but I believe that the show includes most if not all the significant artists in this field. Some available catalogues and anthologies have been included because they possess a reasonable coherence in character theme or intentions. These criteria rather than dictionary definitions were also applied when deciding what was to be considered as being ‘a book.’ The show includes quite a number of unbound works; in all cases however they consist of a series of loose works that have been put between the same covers and under a common name. Many of the included items were lent by Aart van Barneveld from the Stempelpaats in Amsterdam.” The exhibition featured the works of Anna Banana Luciano Bartolini Peter van Beveren Cozette de Charmoy Robert Jacks Ray di Palma Pawel Petasz Dieter Roth Ruedi Schill Gabor Toth Dick Walraven etc. A few of the pieces are illustrated. In fine condition. With the stamps of Niels Lomholt’s Lomholt Formular Press and the Other Books and So Archive on the verso of the first leaf. unknown books
réf. 9675105 6 pp. Small 4to 200 x 146 mm. orig. printed pictorial softcover minor wear to spine title on spine. Mexico: Ediciones Era 1966. First and only edition of Carrión’s first published book. In 1966 Carrión 1941-89 was one of Mexico’s emerging literary talents. A number of his short stories had been published in leading journals and his first play El Gran Espectáculo was performed at the Casa de la Cultura de Tlacotalpan Veracruz to rave reviews. Following his studies in philosophy and letters at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México he spent time in France and Germany 1964-65 learning both languages. La muerte de Miss O consisting of six short stories — La muerte de Miss O Y el olvido… Las palabras Graciela y yo El asalto and Como la serpiente — was lauded in an effusive review published in El Colegio de México’s Diálogos: Artes Letras Ciencias humanas. “La muerte de Miss O. 1966 a collection of six stories in which he fluctuates between psychological and realistic prose is perhaps his most well-known and highly acclaimed work. Skillfully employing the interior monologue somewhat reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and William Faulkner Carrión creates vivid and engaging characters whose psychological self-expression is tinged with realism.”––Eladio Cortés ed. Dictionary of Mexican Literature 1992 p. 147. In very good condition; small crease to corner of the upper cover and minor shelfwear to edges. Price sticker to recto of first blank leaf. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. ⧠Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 pp. 22-23. Reviewed in Diálogos: Artes Letras Ciencias humanas Vol. 2 No. 6 12 October-November 1966 p. 31. unknown books
réf. 8888Amsterdam: ca. 1979. An original collage made by Ulises Carrión 1941-89 and gifted to Maurizio Nannucci b. 1939 in support of Zona’s non-profit mission following the Zona Parolo & Suono festival 11-19 June 1979. Near fine; faint foxing. ⧠See G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 120-23 for similar works by Carrión employing graph paper. unknown books
réf. 8889Amsterdam: ca. 1979. An original collage made by Ulises Carrión 1941-89 and gifted to Maurizio Nannucci b. 1939 in support of Zona’s non-profit mission following the Zona Parolo & Suono festival 11-19 June 1979. Near fine; very faint foxing and residue from the glue. ⧠See G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 120-23 for similar collages by Carrión employing graph paper. unknown books
réf. 9143Port. on lower wrapper. 13 pp. 8vo printed wrappers staple-bound. Amsterdam: Boekie Woekie 2012. A facsimile of Before and After an unpublished typescript bookwork composed by Carrión in 1972. As suggested in Raul Marroquin’s note at the end of the publication this work may precede Sonnets. Fine; staples rusted. WorldCat locates no example in North America. unknown books
réf. 8622in: Anuario del Cuento Mexicano 1962 pp. 82-85. 308 1 p. & table of contents. Thick 4to pictorial softcover spine a little wavy & dampstained title on spine. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes 1963. Early appearance of one of Ulises Carrión’s short stories this was his second appearance in Anuario del Cuento Mexicano. “El asalto” had been published the previous year in Revista Mexican de Literatura Nos. 11-12. A very good copy. ⧠Not recorded by Schraenen in Dear reader. Don’t read 2016. unknown books
réf. 8623in: Revista de Bellas Artes No. 8 March-April 1966 pp. 41-56. Black & white illus. throughout. 102 pp. & ads. 4to pink pictorial wrappers title on spine. Mexico City: 1966. Unrecorded by Guy Schraenen; a little-known Ulises Carrión 1941-89 contribution to one of Mexico’s literary journals. Foreshadowing his permanent move to Amsterdam he contributed this short story about a visit to the city with illustrations by Vicente Rojo 1932-2021. In the mid-1960s Carrión was studying in Paris or Achenmühle Germany. Near fine copy. ⧠Not in G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016. unknown books
réf. 8624in: Revista de Bellas Artes No. 18 November-December 1967 pp. 22-35. Black & white illus. throughout. 104 pp. 4to orange pictorial wrappers extremities a little rubbed title on spine. Mexico City: 1967. Unknown to Guy Schraenen; a story written by Ulises Carrión and published in one of Mexico’s important literary journals. Near fine. ⧠Not in G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016. unknown books
réf. 8133Amsterdam: 1977. The black version of this postcard distributed by Ulises Carrión for his Definitions of art exhibition held at Other Books and So in March 1977. Recipients were asked to respond with their definition of art on the verso. Carrión received 367 answers which were all displayed in the artist’s bookshop. From the recto: “A show called ‘Definitions of art’ will be held at OTHER BOOKS AND SO Herengracht 227 Amsterdam from 1st March to 26th March 1977. Everybody is invited to participate regardless of profession sex age etc. … “Just write your definition of what art is on the back of this card put it in an envelope and send it back to Other Books and So. The show will consist of all the cards received and a selective catalogue will be published. The original idea for this show is by H. W. Kalkmann.” In excellent condition. ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 40-49 where a number of returned cards are shown including ones sent by Michael Snow Dorothy Iannone Herman de Vries Herve Fischer Genesis P. Orridge Horacio Zabala Jean Degottex Robert Filliou Martha Wilson John Baldessari Jackson Mac Low Carolee Schneemann Ben Vautier etc. unknown books
réf. 8134Amsterdam: 1977. The blue version of this postcard distributed by Ulises Carrión for his Definitions of art exhibition held at Other Books and So in March 1977. Recipients were asked to respond with their definition of art on the verso. Carrión received 367 answers. From the recto: “A show called ‘Definitions of art’ will be held at OTHER BOOKS AND SO Herengracht 227 Amsterdam from 1st March to 26th March 1977. Everybody is invited to participate regardless of profession sex age etc. … “Just write your definition of what art is on the back of this card put it in an envelope and send it back to Other Books and So. The show will consist of all the cards received and a selective catalogue will be published. The original idea for this show is by H. W. Kalkmann.” In excellent condition. ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 40-49 where a number of returned cards are shown including ones sent by Michael Snow Dorothy Iannone Herman de Vries Herve Fischer Genesis P. Orridge Horacio Zabala Jean Degottex Robert Filliou Martha Wilson John Baldessari Jackson Mac Low Carolee Schneemann Ben Vautier etc. unknown books
réf. 8355in: Revista Mexicana de Literatura Nos. 11-12 November-December 1962 pp. 17-22. 81 pp. & ads. 8vo printed wrappers lacking lower wrapper. Mexico City: 1962. Ulises Carrión’s first appearance in the experimental literary journal Revista Mexicana de Literatura 1955-65. A good copy; some chipping to the upper wrapper and marginal dampstaining to the final few leaves of text. ⧠G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read 2016 p. 255 as “Un Cuento”. unknown books
réf. 8356in: Anuario del Cuento Mexicano 1961 pp. 60-64. 248 1 p. & index. Thick 4to pictorial softcover spine a little creased title on spine. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes 1962. An early Ulises Carrión 1941-89 appearance in one of Mexico’s prestigious literary journals this one focused on short stories. With a concise biography of the author. A very good copy; some light wear to the spine. ⧠Not recorded by Schraenen in Dear reader. Don’t read 2016. unknown books
réf. 7889Many black & white illus. 127 1 p. Small folio printed softcover. Amsterdam: 1992. Catalogue for the first major posthumous exhibition on Ulises Carrión 1941-89. The exhibition was hosted by the Museum Fodor Amsterdam 18 January-23 February 1992 and the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen March-May 1992. Developed by Carrión’s close friend and collaborator Guy Schraenen 1941-2018 the show was the first major retrospective of the artist’s life and works. Printed in parallel Dutch and English this catalogue begins with a lengthy biography by Schraenen and continues with short essays on Carrión’s manifold books social experiments projects and thoughts on artists’ books. With an exhaustive bibliography and exhibition history at the end. Fine copy of an important reference work that is now scarce on the market. unknown books
réf. 7901Several illus. 46 133 pp. 8vo blue printed softcover perfect-bound. Brooklyn NY: Ugly Duckling Presse 2020. Handsomely printed re-publication of Ulises Carrión’s 1972 classic Sonnets. Fully reprinted here in the 1972 bookwork Carrión devised 44 variations on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet “Heart’s Compass.” With insightful essays and contributions by Veronica Gerber Bicecci Annette Gilbert Monica de la Torre Michalis Pichler Heriberto Yepez India Johnson and Felipe Becerra. As new. Published through In-Out Productions in an edition of 200 copies the first edition of Sonnets is now very rare. unknown books
réf. 796023 1 leaves mimeographed on rectos only. Small folio 288 x 187 mm. self-bound stapled. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1977. One of Carrión’s rarest exhibition catalogues. The artist curated this show at the Galeria Remont in Warsaw a contemporary art space established by the Polish artist and filmmaker Henryk Gajewski b. 1948 in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979 hosting performance art exhibitions of photography stamp art and bookworks and many other events. Carrión had staged an exhibition called Contents at the gallery the previous December. The present exhibition’s title translates as “Other Books.” Gajewski and Carrión contributed essays to the catalogue both in Polish. The majority of the catalogue consists of an extensive list of artists engaging with the book form and their bookworks. They include Robert Altman John Armleder Daniel Buren Mirtha Dermisache Peter Downsbrough General Idea Michael Gibbs Klaus Groh Ian Hamilton Finlay Dick Higgins Douglas Huebler Alison Knowles Richard Kostelanetz Joseph Kosuth Anna Kutera George Maciunas Raul Marroquin Maurizio Nannucci Clemente Padin Dieter Roth Ed Ruscha Takako Saito Carolee Schneemann Mieko Shiomi Telfer Stokes Endre Tot Jiri Valoch Wolf Vostell Herman de Vries Lawrence Weiner etc. etc. Leaves 16-23 present Carrión’s selections of seminal books along with essays theorizing on bookworks and mail art. Among the bookworks shown we note: Carrión’s Looking for Poetry 1973 General Idea’s Manipulating the Self 1971 Hamilton Finlay’s Honey by the Water 1973 Huebler’s Location Piece 2 1970 Kosuth’s Notebook on Water 1965-66 1970 Maciunas’s Flux Paper Events 1976 Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966 Schneemann’s Up to and Including Her Limits 1974 Shiomi’s Spatial Poem 1976 and Weiner’s Various Manners and with Various Things 1976. Near fine copy; staples rusted. The pictorial wrappers added to some examples of this catalogue were never bound with the present copy. ⧠For more information on the Galeria Remont see the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’s website page “Art Prints of the Exchange Gallery” then the section on Gajewski and Galeria Remont. U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 209. Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown books
réf. 8076Single sheet exhibition invitation torn into ca. two dozen pieces. Amsterdam: Pieter Brattinga Gallery 1981. One of Ulises Carrión’s rarest mail art projects with the original mailed envelope sent to the collector Tjeerd Deelstra b. 1937. As the artist intended explained below a small torn portion is not present. “In 1981 when the Print Gallery Pieter Brattinga invited Carrión to exhibit his work there Carrión thought of a response project in which he instructed participants to reconstruct in any way they desired the bottom half of an invitation which had been shredded. They were then to sign it and mail it back to the gallery. The lower section of the invitation included a definition of mail art which the artist had torn up and from which he had then removed a small fragment. This way the definition of mail art could never be reconstructed and the instruction given by the artist was impossible to accomplish. The project resulted in 243 responses in all sorts of formats; not only intervened letters but also objects. By making participants reconstruct the invitation the project had a cyclical component that was emphasized by having the word ‘feedback’ in its title. In this way Feedback Pieces takes one step further Carrión’s intentions to reformulate not only the artwork but also the communication system through which it travels.”–Aimé Iglesias Lukin “King Kong Archives: Ulises Carrión on Mail and Art” in Ulises Carrión: The Big Monster 2019 pp. 11-13 pictured. Both the envelope and torn-up invitation are in excellent condition. ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 120-35 pictured. unknown books
réf. 8078Many black & white illus. Two large folded sheets 299 x 212 mm. folded unbound. Purmerend: Museum Waterland 1981. An uncommon exhibition flyer for a display of bookworks at the Museum Waterland co-curated by Ulises Carrión and Juan J. Agius. Both featured their own works along with those of François Bouillon Axel Heibel Diderick van Kleef Federico Sanguinetti Ben Sleeuwenhoek Ad Gerritsen J. H. Kocman Tom Ockerse Gèza Perneczky and Pawel Petasz. Several examples of each artist’s work are pictured. All the works displayed were drawn from Agius’s and Carrión’s personal collections. This catalogue’s text written by Alex A. M. de Vries is in parallel Dutch and English. De Vries pointedly notes “Two book-artists curated and arranged this exhibition in such a way that you will not see much of the usual mania for conservation which is being practised in most of the musea. This means that you will be able to take the books in your hands…This exhibition proves that artists’ books deserve to be shown more often and on large scale. And in an adequate way. The actual treatment like that of conservators in musea who like to take care of books as if they were dealing with radio-active material does not satisfy. A book ought to be in the hand of the reader.” Fine and fresh copy. ⧠U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 210. unknown books
réf. 8079Coated paper with black & white illus. Assen Netherlands: 1982. The rare promotional poster for one of Ulises Carrión’s experimental public installations; the present copy is in particularly fine condition and has not been folded or creased. Entitled The Robbery of the Year this exhibition was designed by the artist as a test of visitors’ self-restraint. A large diamond was placed on a cushion without any enclosure but with a single spotlight trained on it in an otherwise dark room. Visitors were invited to enter the room while a photographer took pictures of the space and the visitors. An expected theft failed to transpire and near the end of the exhibition the photographer was withdrawn. Soon thereafter the diamond disappeared. “De Diefstal van het Jaar was an exhibition of a diamond in which visitors are surreptitiously invited to steal the stone raising interesting questions about viewing and stealing a precious object worthy of public exhibition and evoking images associated with museum heists with subsequent analysis on issues such as the value and ownership of objects on display.”–Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 44 & 164 pictured. On his series of public experiments Carrión is quoted as saying: “In my work I use all kinds of materials objects processes and people as formal elements. The final result is only partially determined in advance and the process that leads to that point is influenced by all the factors mentioned above. It is a game without fixed rules and with no winners or losers.”–Guy Schraenen ed. “We have won! Haven’t we” 1992 p. 69. In excellent condition. unknown books
