CARRIÓN, Ulises.

The orchestra.

Single purple paper sheet (298 x 209 mm.), mounted on beige paper, collaged yellow pieces of paper with ms. text., signed. [Amsterdam]: 1977.

Manuscript collage language work by Mexican artist Ulises Carrión. He contributed a version of the piece to the magazine Kontexts, it appears in issue 5 (1974).

Near fine; adhesive in corners bleeding through. Signed in the lower left corner: “Ulises Carrión, ‘77.” From the collection of Guy Schraenen (1941-2018). With thanks to Rich Dana, Sackner Archive Project Coordinator Librarian at the University of Iowa Special Collections, who confirmed the appearance of this work in Kontexts issue 5. The Sackner Archive holds the editorial files for Kontexts, including original contributions like Edgardo Antonio Vigo, JH Kocman, Carrión, Felipe Ehrenberg, Bob Cobbing, Clemente Padin, Jiri Valoch, etc.

❧ G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2015), pp. 110 & 114 (pictured).