Many color illus. 183 pp. & colophon. 8vo, green rubber-stamped softcover. New York: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., 2022.

Our catalogue on the Mexican artist Ulises Carrión (1941-89). Offered 92 items for sale, followed by lists of the artist’s editioned bookworks, exhibitions at Other Books and So, and a bibliography.

As new, each example is rubber-stamped on the front and back covers. Designed by Flat Fix and printed by KOPA (Lithuania).

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OCLC Accession No.: 1295641351. More

Many black & white illus. 267 pp. Thick 4to, printed softcover, title on spine, illustrated endpapers. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2015.

The English edition of this exhibition catalogue, now very scarce. The exhibition took place at the Reina Sofia (16 March-10 October 2016) and Mexico City’s Museo Jumex (9 February-7 May 2017). Profusely illustrated, the catalogue contains essays and remembrances by Guy Schraenen, Felipe Ehrenberg, Jan Voss, Joao Fernandes, Heriberto Yepez, Javier Maderuelo, and Maike Aden. An invaluable reference on Ulises Carrión’s life and works.

As new. With the inserted DVD present as issued. More

Printed on one side, with ms. date: “1976.” Single leaf (208 x 150 mm.). London: [1975].

Invitation/announcement for the artist’s fourth solo show, held at art meeting place in London. The show occurred in 1975, but on this copy the year has been written in as “1976.” The rest of the show’s details have been printed in breaks in the text from page 133 of H.G. Wells’s You Can’t Be Too Careful. In fine condition.

❧ Guy Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), pp. 174 & 178 (pictured). More

Illus. to recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Maastricht: Stichting Agora, 1980.

Postcard invitation for the artist’s 1980 presentation in Maastricht, mailed to collector Tjeerd Deelstra (b. 1937). Fine. More

Color 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). More

One 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... More

Many black & white illus. 267 pp. Thick 4to, printed softcover, title on spine, illustrated endpapers. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2015.

The Spanish edition of this exhibition catalogue, now very scarce. The exhibition took place at the Reina Sofia (16 March-10 October 2016) and Mexico City’s Museo Jumex (9 February-7 May 2017). Profusely illustrated, the catalogue contains essays and remembrances by Guy Schraenen, Felipe Ehrenberg, Jan Voss, Joao Fernandes, Heriberto Yepez, Javier Maderuelo, and Maike Aden. An invaluable reference on Ulises Carrión’s life and works.

Near fine, minimal edgewear. With the inserted DVD present as issued. More

Many 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’... More

Many 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.... More

23, [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... More

Illus. 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... More

Card (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... More