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Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 8086Card 150 x 106 mm. with text added by rubber stamp in red blue green and yellow ink. Amsterdam: 1976. One of the rarest pieces of ephemera created by Ulises Carrión’s bookstore and exhibition space Other Books and So. In 1975 the year of its founding the space had hosted shows for the Beau Geste Press Jiri Valoch Opal L. Nations and Eric van der Wal. For the present exhibition Carrión invited 200 artists who employed stamps in their work and displayed their pieces on the walls of Other Books and So when it was located at 227 Herengracht. In fine condition; nice impressions. From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 38-39 pictured on p. 38 with a photograph of the exhibition. unknown
Best.-Nr. 1089086 1 p. 8vo 225 x 155 mm. orig. printed red semi-stiff wrappers title on spine. Cullompton Devon: Beau Geste Press 1973. First edition the deluxe version on vibrant multi-colored Strathmore Grandee paper of this scarce and early Carrión 1941-89 bookwork. Arguments was printed in a total edition of 400 copies 200 on Huntsman white cartridge and unsigned and 200 deluxe copies and signed on the verso of the title-page. Formed in 1970 by Felipe Ehrenberg Martha Hellion David Mayor Chris Welch and Madeleine Gallard the Beau Geste Press was instrumental in Carrión’s growing engagement with artists’ books. The scholar Zanna Gilbert recalls in the Beau Geste Press catalogue p. 405 that in 2017 Ehrenberg “commented that Carrión had never gotten his hands dirty with ink before visiting the Beau Geste Press.” In 1973 the Press published two of his books Arguments Autumn and Looking for Poetry/Tras la Poesía Winter. In the Getty Research Institute exhibition catalogue Artists and Their Books Books and Their Artists 2018 Gilbert describes the present bookwork: “Carrión humorously interrogates the structure and content of books and the literary devices used by authors and playwrights. The titular exchanges in Arguments are indicated only by the names of the participants with no reference to the actual content of their disagreements. The distinctly Anglophone names are arranged in various configurations on each page of the book leaving the reader to wonder about the substance of the disputes. Indeed as the ‘arguments’ play out across the gridded field of the typeset page the book increasingly becomes about the materiality of the text itself with Carrión adding symbols such as the ampersand or violating the names themselves—as when for example ‘Marion’ becomes ‘Mar ion’—resulting in ever more complex exchanges” p. 72. The book was beautifully typeset by Terry Wright a skilled printer who joined the Press in 1972; laid out by Mayor; and offset-printed by Ehrenberg. Each “Argument” is numbered by hand there are 25 in total with several misnumbered and corrected in this copy nos. 5 22 23 24. Carrión’s book concludes with an unnumbered page on translucent paper with the entreaty: “My name is Ulises / What’s yours ” A fine copy; spine a trifle sunned. ⧠Alice Motard ed. Beau Geste Press 2020 No. 48 pp. 186-91 illustrating both versions. J. J. Agius & R. Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 7. unknown
Best.-Nr. 713896 unnumbered pages. Thick 8vo 210 x 150 mm. semi-stiff printed wrappers. Geneva: Editions Héros-Limite 2005. The scarce second edition of Ulises Carrión’s famous Arguments 1st ed.: 1973 published by the Beau Geste Press. In the Getty Research Institute exhibition catalogue Artists and Their Books Books and Their Artists 2018 Zanna Gilbert writes about the first edition: “Carrión humorously interrogates the structure and content of books and the literary devices used by authors and playwrights. The titular exchanges in Arguments are indicated only by the names of the participants with no reference to the actual content of their disagreements. The distinctly Anglophone names are arranged in various configurations on each page of the book leaving the reader to wonder about the substance of the disputes.” As new. From an edition of 750 copies. ⧠U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 202. unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 9935Black & white illus. throughout. 16 pp. incl. wrappers. 4to printed wrappers staple-bound. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1976. An extremely scarce exhibition catalogue published for Carrión’s first exhibition at Henryk Gajewski’s Galeria Remont. Gajewski b. 1948 the Polish artist and filmmaker founded this contemporary art space 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. This catalogue contains the artist’s celebrated manifesto “The New Art of Making Books” which had been published for the first time the previous year in Plural no. 41 in Spanish and Michael Gibbs’s Kontexts nos. 6-7 in English. Galeria Remont became one of Carrión’s most important international connections in the vast network of collaborators he formed. Following this show he curated another exhibition at the Warsaw space — Inne Ksiazki 8-30 May 1977 — and gave lectures and performances there related to mail and stamp art. Most of the text in the catalogue reproduces Carrión’s characteristic bold script. In a very frank artist’s statement he elucidates his pivot from Mexican literary wünderkind to avant-garde language artist: “After extensively publishing short stories and theater plays in Mexico U. C. began using language outside the mould of what is usually called literature. Since then rather than writing poems ‘in the form of’ an advertisement or a dictionary old literature under new masks he situates dictionaries phone-books ads or any other manifestations of language as autonomous structures. His aim is to reveal the beauty and richness of these structures regardless of their referential content. U. C. is still a writer — and he insists on calling himself such — who writes very little or doesn’t even write at all. This is a radical shift in attitude which enables U. C. to concern himself not only with verbal languages but also with any system of symbols he may come across. He presents such systems either in the form of a book or as a display on a wall.” A fine copy but for faint browning to the wrappers. ⧠Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10113159 pp. & one leaf with index & colophon. Small 8vo 180 x 115 mm. orig. printed pictorial softcover spine worn author portrait on lower cover. Guaymas Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz August 1970. First and only edition of Carrión’s second book a collection of six short stories printed in a numbered edition of 3000 copies. In the 1960s 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 with the aid of scholarships learning both languages. Dissatisfaction with the Mexican literary world and local hostility toward the gay community drove Carrión to emigrate to Amsterdam in 1970 where he found a progressive and free-spirited milieu. From then on he conscientiously abandoned literature and fully dedicated his life and work to the visual arts in the form of books films social experiments performances mail art etc. This book represents the artist’s final moment as a traditional/conventional author preceding his conversion to experimental and avant-garde methods of communication. “In 1970 he published a second six-story collection De Alemania considered a more mature work. Here he has perfected the interior monologue which is the primary manner in which his characters disclose themselves. In some stories the salient characteristic is alienation but in others Carrión employs humor as a catalyst. Since such characteristics are not always mutually exclusive he does achieve a delicate balance between the two.”–Dictionary of Mexican Literature 1992 ed. Eladio Cortés p. 147. Very good copy internally fine; spine a little creased as with most copies. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. unknown
Best.-Nr. 143753Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz 1970. First edition and only edition number 533 of 3000 copies of Carrión's second book a collection of six short stories employing the interior monologue by "perhaps Mexico's most important conceptual artist" Torre. Uncommon on the market: we were unable to trace any other copies for sale or at auction. Ulises Carrión 1941-1989 wrote De Alemania after his language and literature studies in France and Germany. In 1972 Carrión left Mexico and moved to Amsterdam where he founded the legendary Other Books and So bookstore and event space. He remains best known for his decisive role in defining and conceptualising the artistic genre artists' book through his manifest The New Art of Making Books 1975 "in which he extols the virtues of the book as a three-dimensional medium and convincingly refutes the idea of its being an accidental container of literature: 'A book is not a case of words nor a bag of words nor a bearer of words.' Arguing that if in the 'old art the writer writes texts . in the new art the writer makes books' Carrión urged writers and artists to take advantage of the possibilities that new printing technologies such as the mimeograph had to offer to bypass the market and to form alternate distribution networks by fostering communities of like-minded practitioners" Torre. Octavo. Original pictorial white wrappers printed in purple and black titles to spine and front cover in black and white. Extremities a little rubbed vertical creasing to spine the binding otherwise firm and unfaded slight spotting to top edge internally clean and fresh; a very good copy indeed. Mónica de la Torre "Ulises Carrión's The Poet's Tongue" in BOMB January 2013. unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 10311Two torn pieces of watermarked paper typewritten text mounted on black craft paper signed. Amsterdam: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. Initialed in the bottom left corner of the left sheet. ⧠G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 116 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10312Two torn pieces of watermarked paper typewritten text mounted on black craft paper signed. Amsterdam: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. The artist has initialed the bottom left corner of the left sheet. ⧠G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 117 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10313Two torn pieces of watermarked paper typewritten text mounted on black craft paper signed. Amsterdam: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. The artist has initialed the bottom left corner of the left sheet. ⧠G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 117 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 11413Black & white illus. throughout. 24 leaves printed on rectos only. Small 4to 210 x 152 mm. orig. pictorial wrappers. Amsterdam: Cres Publications & Agora Studio July 1978 but 1979. First edition of this scarce bookwork. Conceived by Ulises Carrión 1941-89 it was the "July-Special" edition of Cres a bi-monthly publication and produced in an edition of 400 copies. Although it is dated "July 1978" on the upper wrapper a correction slip in this copy states that it is correctly dated July 1979. "In Alphabetical Order consisted of a set of twenty-four black-and-white photographs of a small wooden index card holder with a label saying 'a-z.' In each photograph some of the cards are placed vertically so that they stand out from the others. They are clearly different each time. The type and size of the card holder suggests that the index cards record personal details. It could be the file of Ulises Carrión's friends although all the friendships are obviously not considered equal nor do they all belong to the same social group or cultural scene. The series showed the wide range of possible categories of a single human group that has been sorted in alphabetical order."-Javier Maderuelo "An Archive Is an Archive Is an Archive Is an Archive" in Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don't read. 2016 p. 58. Near fine copy; some minor creasing to the spine internally pristine. Photographs by John Liggins; layout by Thomas Gravemaker. unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 11037Single A4 sheet printed & stamped on one side. Amsterdam: 1978. Scarce flyer announcement of the artist’s utopian vision of a free artist-run postal system called E.A.M.I.S. and operated from his Other Books and So bookstore in Amsterdam. Referring to himself as the “Post Master” Carrión writes eight point describing the network the final item on the flyer reads: “By usin sic. the E.A.M.I.S. you support the only alternative to the national bureaucracies and you strengthen the international artists community.” “Carrión conceived a support other than the official postal system to deliver letters and packages. It was based on the erratic distribution of the mail by people traveling around. As Postmaster of E.A.M.I.S. he set up the rules and services of this alternative system in 8 points as the concept of the project. It was mimeographed on a DIN A4 sheet and distributed and included in the program of the International Artists’ Meeting at the Galeria Remont Warsaw in April 1978 for the first time…A couple of months later as the project came to an end 24 letters and parcels were distributed and reached their addresses while 9 others remained undelivered.”–Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 64-65 pictured on p. 64. In fine condition. unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 8080Single A4 sheet printed on both sides illus. on recto. Amsterdam: 1982. Rare flyer for the lone film made by Ulises Carrión 1941-89. In the years after the closing of Other Books and So the artist focused much of his efforts on video works eventually founding Time Based Arts a gallery dedicated to supporting video artists. On the verso Carrión describes the film which was “originally produced for the International Media Meeting organized by the Agora Foundation in Maastricht from 19 to 25 April 1982.” “Ever since his participation in the activities of the In-Out Center Carrión along with other Amsterdam artists shared an increasing interest in the possibility of film and video to document their numerous ephemeral activities and to work with the question of time…Carrión found in the language of film a support for his questioning of narrative widening the possibilities beyond what was previously limited to literature…In his only film the record of a performance The Death of the Art Dealer 1982 Carrión transfers into performance and film the type of processes he had applied to the literary text. Holding a small television set showing a 1940s film by Max Ophuls Carrión moves to the right or left to the rhythm of the movements of the characters in the film. The soundtrack is that of the original film but the narrative itself is ignored. Instead what one observes is a fairly unnoticed and typically forgettable structural aspect. In a way Carrión’s movements are like the parentheses and punctuation marks that he had previously used to strikethrough text in his pieces on certain literary works.”–Joao Fernandes “Art as Subversion: Make and Remake to Make Anew” in Dear reader. Don’t read. p. 45. Pristine copy. ⧠Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 128 130-31 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 7894Unpaginated. Square 4to 247 x 204 mm. printed covers with flaps as issued. Mexico City: Taller Ditoria 2007. First printed edition of Ulises Carrión's typewritten manuscript of the same name. Carrión 1941-89 added handwritten punctuation to this work but it was never realized during his lifetime. Entirely letterpress-printed this book is now scarce on the market. It was co-produced by Martha Hellión one of the founders of Beau Geste Press. Near fine. This is a beautifully designed book printed on several special papers from a numbered edition of 600. ⧠Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 pp. 78-79 pictured. Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don't read. 2016 p. 84. unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
