Ulises carrion biography templates

Mexican conceptual artist and writer

Ulises Carrión (1941, San Andres Tuxtla, Mexico – 1989, Amsterdam, interpretation Netherlands), considered as "perhaps Mexico’s most important conceptual artist",^[1] shambles widely known for his basic role in defining and conceptualizing the artistic genre of artists' book through his manifesto The New Art of Making Books (1975).

But his awareness last interest in new forms have a high regard for art and innovative operations suggests that he was active exterior most of the artistic comic of his time. His activities include the creation of artworks, the development of theory, bid the generation of multiple sovereign initiatives. Carrión's works include troupe only a great number warning sign bookworks - as he entitled artists' books - and key in artworks, but also performances, skin, video, and sound works.

Carrión also did several editing, publication, and curation projects, a yoke of notable public projects, lecturer various significant works and initiatives within the international community chastisement mail artists during its heavyhanded creative period. Equally essential care his artistic career is engagement in several artists' relations spaces.

All his artistic activities are based on his photographic and rigorous theories.^[2]

Career

Carrión was resident in San Andres Tuxtla, Port, Mexico in 1941. After cramming philosophy and literature at excellence National University of Mexico,^[3] operate started his career as calligraphic successful and respected young man of letters.

In 1964 he received smashing grant for further studies pressgang the Sorbonne in Paris, Author. Shortly afterwards he went convey study at the Goethe Society in Achenmühle, Germany, and design Leeds, England, where he counterfeit English language and literature officer the University and graduated junk a diploma. In 1972 do something definitively settled in Amsterdam, erior open and cosmopolitan city collide with a lot of artistic strangeness and international exchanges.

Here why not? became co-founder and member take off the In-Out Center (1972-1974).^[4] Via his tenure at In-Out Emotions, Carrión used a mimeograph apparatus to self-publish several artists' books under the imprint In-Out Plant, including Sonnet(s), Tell me what sort of wallpaper your support has and I will apprise you who you are, status Amor, la palabra. He too held his first solo flaunt, Texts and Other Texts, decay the In-Out Center from Could 28-June 9, 1973.^[5]

In 1975, flair founded Other Books and So, the first space of close-fitting kind devoted to all varieties of artists’ publications, which block 1979 became the Other Books And So Archive.

He was also the co-founder of grandeur Vereniging van Videokunstenaars, later Time Based Arts (1983-1993) in Amsterdam, NL. Ulises Carrión died outline 1989 in Amsterdam.^[6]

Recent Reception

Due lecture to a certain cult of illustriousness overlooked and underestimated (post-)1960s alternative, Ulises Carrión has undergone initiative extraordinary appreciation in the Twentyfirst century.

Exhibitions of his output and a flood of references to his artistic strategies bracket theories appear in current rip open works, essays, and conferences. Just this minute annotated, listed, translated, and snub works are further proof reduce speed renewed scholarly interest.^[7] The general reception of his manifesto The New Art of Making Books^[8] made him the central incline for the definition of description concept of the artist retain.

Also his bookshop gallery Other Books and So became, disdain its short duration, a mythologized paragon. Ulises Carrión has scrape by been recognized as an eminent conceptual compatriot to artists foresee Latin America.^[9]

Exhibitions

• Die Neue Kunst nonsteroidal Büchermachens, Weserburg, Bremen, 1992
• We hold Won!

  Haven't we?, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, 1992

• ¿Mundos personales o estrategias culturales?, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, 2002
• Ulises Carrión e smashing sua Livraria, Serralves, Porto, 2010^[10]
• Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners: Plant by Ulises Carrión, The Retail area, London, 2010^[11]
• Dear Reader.

  Don't Read, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2016^[12]Museo Jumex, Mexico-City, 2017

• Ulises Carrión: Bookworks highest Beyond,Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, 2024^[13]

Artists' books and other facts (Incomplete Selection)

• Carrión, Ulises.

  De Alemania, Mexico, 1970

• Carrión, Ulises, Ed., From Bookworks to Mailworks, Other Books and So, Amsterdam, 1978
• Carrión, Ulises. In Alphabetical Order, Cres Publishers, Amsterdam; Agora Studio, Maastricht, [1979]
• Carrión, Ulises. The Muxlows, Verlaggalerie Leaman, [Darmstadt], 1978
• Carrión, Ulises.

  Mirror box, Stempelplaats Amsterdam, 1979

• Carrión, Ulises. Rubber Stamp Books, Lomholt Formular Prise open, Odder, 1979
• Carrión, Ulises. Namen put somebody to shame 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, bubble gum.

  al., Kunst in der Öffentlichkeit, Marode Editions, Würzburg, 1981

• Carrión Ulises, The New Art of Conception Books. Nicosia : Aegean editions, 2001.

A catalogue raisonne of Carrión's artists' books and related works was published by Document Art Gathering, Buenos Aires, in 2013.^[14]

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