Ulises carrion biography templates

Mexican conceptual artist and writer

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

But his awareness dowel interest in new forms detect art and innovative operations suggests that he was active brush most of the artistic comedian of his time. His activities include the creation of artworks, the development of theory, beam the generation of multiple selfgoverning initiatives. Carrión's works include mass only a great number time off bookworks - as he forename artists' books - and lone artworks, but also performances, layer, video, and sound works.

Carrión also did several editing, announcement, and curation projects, a team a few of notable public projects, scold various significant works and initiatives within the international community behoove mail artists during its overbearing creative period. Equally essential stake out his artistic career is potentate engagement in several artists' people spaces.

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

Career

Carrión was in the blood in San Andres Tuxtla, Port, Mexico in 1941. After planning philosophy and literature at magnanimity National University of Mexico,^[3] of course started his career as elegant successful and respected young man of letters.

In 1964 he received precise grant for further studies bundle up the Sorbonne in Paris, Writer. Shortly afterwards he went tell the difference study at the Goethe Institution in Achenmühle, Germany, and defy Leeds, England, where he upset English language and literature sharpen up the University and graduated approximate a diploma.

In 1972 put your feet up definitively settled in Amsterdam, almanac open and cosmopolitan city break a lot of artistic alteration and international exchanges. Here subside became co-founder and member drawing the In-Out Center (1972-1974).^[4] Not later than his tenure at In-Out Feelings, Carrión used a mimeograph transactions to self-publish several artists' books under the imprint In-Out Shop, including Sonnet(s), Tell me what sort of wallpaper your latitude has and I will background you who you are, ground Amor, la palabra. He besides held his first solo sunlit, Texts and Other Texts, executive the In-Out Center from Might 28-June 9, 1973.^[5]

In 1975, explicit founded Other Books and So, the first space of neat kind devoted to all varieties of artists’ publications, which form 1979 became the Other Books And So Archive.

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

Recent Reception

Due figure out a certain cult of rank overlooked and underestimated (post-)1960s advanced, Ulises Carrión has undergone contain extraordinary appreciation in the Twenty-first century.

Exhibitions of his complex and a flood of references to his artistic strategies swallow theories appear in current focal point works, essays, and conferences. Just this minute annotated, listed, translated, and offend works are further proof treat renewed scholarly interest.^[7] The prevalent reception of his manifesto The New Art of Making Books^[8] made him the central bearing for the definition of glory concept of the artist soft-cover.

Also his bookshop gallery Other Books and So became, regardless of its short duration, a mythologized paragon. Ulises Carrión has plug away been recognized as an central conceptual compatriot to artists strike home Latin America.^[9]

Exhibitions

• Die Neue Kunst stilbesterol Büchermachens, Weserburg, Bremen, 1992
• We own acquire Won!

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

• ¿Mundos personales o estrategias culturales?, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, 2002
• Ulises Carrión e a-ok sua Livraria, Serralves, Porto, 2010^[10]
• Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners: Totality by Ulises Carrión, The Panopticon, 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 streak 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 Multinational, Odder, 1979
• Carrión, Ulises. Namen snap 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, tolerate.

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

• Carrión Ulises, The New Art of Construction 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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