Dear reader. Do not read. A retrospective of Ulises Carrión.
16/03/2016.
Museo Reina Sofía [MAD] Spain. 16.03.2016 > 10.10.2016
metalocus, PALOMA DE LA QUINTANA
metalocus, PALOMA DE LA QUINTANA
The inauguration of the retrospective of Ulises Carrión took place last Tuesday at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. The exhibition, in which are displayed works in all formats, aims to show all aspects of the work of the Mexican creator. It also includes his audiovisual works, which are exhibited for the first time.
Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Detail. Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Detail. Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Detail. Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Detail. Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Detail. Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Exhibition room view. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Photography © Joaquín cortés/Román Lores. Photographic archive of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía.
Brochure for the Artists' Postage Stamps & Cancellation Stamps exhibition. Amsterdam 1979. Printing on paper. 23,7x16,2 cm. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Image courtesy of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía. Private collection.
Ulises Carrión reading Clinch Ecard. Geneva 1978. B&W photography. 11,5x18,0 cm. Querido lector, no lea by Ulises Carrión. Image courtesy of the National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofía. Private collection.
Poster for performances Mail Art and the Big Monster y Names and Address: Write Clear. Galerie S:t Petri Archive of Experimental and Marginal Art. Lund, Sweden 1979, Printing on paper 42 x 30 cm. Private collection, Paris.
The Museo Reina Sofía presents the retrospective Dear reader. Do not read, dedicated to Mexican creator Ulises Carrión. Carrion was an artist, editor, writer, curator and art theorist of the international avant-garde in the post-sixties, plus a key figure in Mexican conceptual art. Archivo Lafuente has provided, as on previous occasions, a significant number of works, this has made their collaboration fundamental.
The exhibition aims to illustrate all aspects of Carrión's artistic and intellectual work: from his initial career as a young writer of success in Mexico, and his college years as a graduate student in France, Germany and England during which he studied language and linguistics ; to its many activities in Amsterdam, city in which Carrion finally settled in 1972 and where he lived until his death at age 49.
About 350 pieces, including books, magazines, videos, sound works, mail art, public projects and performances, as well as its initiatives as a curator, publisher, distributor, lecturer, archivist, art theorist and writer are displayed. In addition, they exhibited for the first time all of Ulises Carrion's audiovisual works, most notably The Death of the Art Dealer (kanaal zero); Bookworks revisited; Gossip, Scandal, and Good Manners, accompanied with documentation and vintage images of other global projects.
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Organization.-
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Curator.-
Guy Schraenen
Research assistant.-
Maike Aden
Coordinator.-
Gemma Bayón and Beatriz Velázquez
Dates.-
From 15 March to 2016 to October 10, 2016
Venue.-
3rd Floor. zone A, Sabatini Building, Reina Sofia Museum. C/Santa Isabel, 52, Madrid. Spain.
ULISES CARRIÓN
Ulises Carrión (1941, San Andrés Tuxtla, Mexico – 1989, Amsterdam) was an artist, editor, curator, and theorist of the post-1960s international artistic avant-garde. He was a key figure in Mexican conceptual art.
After a promising start as a writer of short stories and plays, in 1972 Carrion finally abandoned literature to test a new type of writing that, based on the experiences of concrete poetry and the Fluxus movement, it was characterized by using resources such as repetition, variation and permutation of words or names and making lists and tabs.
Due to his interest in new art forms and innovative trends, he actively participated in most of the artistic disciplines of his time. He cofounded the independent artist-run space In-Out Center in Amsterdam and founded the legendary bookshop-gallery Other Books and So (1975–79)
Along with his artistic activities, Ulises Carrión developed a wide range of theoretical work, highlighted by his 1975 manifesto “The New Art of Making Books.” Though conceived with the goal of opening new avenues for traditional writers, it would have a great influence on young visual artists.
