Exhibition card: In Drei Räumen, Arbeiten IN SITU von Daniel Buren (3-31 May 1977).
Printed on both sides. Card. Munich, Rüdiger Schöttle, 1977.
Announcement card for Buren’s 1977 show with Schöttle. Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Card. Munich, Rüdiger Schöttle, 1977.
Announcement card for Buren’s 1977 show with Schöttle. Fine. More
Black & white illus. & color diagrams. 73, [2] pp. 8vo, pictorial softcover, title on spine. Brussels: Daled & Gevaert, 1977.
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—. Reboundings: an essay by Daniel Buren, followed by 7 plates and 7 diagrams. Black & white illus. & color diagrams. 77, [2] pp. 8vo, pictorial softcover, title on spine. Brussels: Daled & Gevaert, 1977.
The scarce French and English editions of Buren’s polemical text, both printed in editions of 530 copies; both in excellent condition. The artist was driven to write this as a pointed critique of museums and curators five years after the controversy surrounding his contribution to... More
Printed on both sides. Card, horizontal fold as issued. Maastricht: Agora Studio, [1972].
The rare card announcing an Agora Studio group exhibition during which Carrión showed his first bookwork Sonnet(s), which had been published by In-Out Productions earlier in the year. This show was very likely the book’s first public presentation. In the subsequent two years at Agora, Carrión had a solo show — Grammatica(s) (15 Feb.-1 March 1974) — and was part of a group exhibition in December of the same year (see Catalogue 237, no. 8).
Near fine; minor creasing.
❧ G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016)... More
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
Color illus. 143 pp. & colophon. 8vo, pictorial softcover, title on spine. New York: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., 2023.
Our second catalogue on the Mexican artist Ulises Carrión (1941-89), offering 58 items for sale, including manuscripts, rare bookworks, exhibition ephemera, etc. A number of the materials come from the collection of Guy Schraenen (1941-2018).
In her Substack review of the catalogue, Johanna Drucker writes: “The catalogue is an exquisitely produced collection of facsimiles of the materials the bookseller is managing. The care with which the presentation has been put together and the production values in design, printing, photography, and... 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
A4 sheet, photocopied on one side, horizontal fold. Recife, Brazil: 1978.
Rare flyer for Carrión’s lecture “Mail Art and the Big Monster” at Recife’s Universidade Católica de Pernambuco in 1978. In excellent condition.
❧ Guy Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), p. 256. More
A4 sheet, photocopied on one side, horizontal fold. Recife, Brazil: [1978].
Promotional flyer for Ulises Carrión’s appearance at the Universidade Catolica de Pernambuco’s first Festival de Inverno in July 1978. Carrión (1941-89) presented several of his audio and video works. He also gave his influential lecture “Mail Art and the Big Monster” at the festival on the 25th (see Schraenen, p. 256).
Near fine; top edge a bit browned.
❧ Guy Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), pp. 137 (pictured) & 261. 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
Black & white illus. 25 pp. & colophon. 4to, black printed softcover, title on spine. Amsterdam: Galerie Da Costa, 1980.
One of 500 copies, a scarce exhibition catalogue with an introduction composed by Carrión (1941-89). The catalogue provides a survey of Galerie Da Costa, a publisher of artists’ books and livres d’artistes managed by Juan J. Agius. Agius published two of Carrión’s bookworks: Verzamelde Werken (1980) and Sistemas (1983).
Carrión writes: “This catalogue illustrates the publishing activity developed by Juan Agius, from Da Costa Gallery, during the last 4 years. Such an activity takes place in a cultural context that... More
Seven black & white illus. [11] pp. Small 4to (210 x 150 mm.), pictorial printed wrappers, staple-bound. Schiedam, Netherlands: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 1981.
An uncommon exhibition catalogue published by the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam; the show was curated by Ulises Carrión (1941-89), and the books displayed came from his personal archive, the Other Books and So Archive. By 1978, Carrión had closed his intrepid Amsterdam bookstore, Other Books and So, and converted it into an archive of artists’ books. This is one of a number of exhibitions on artists’ books that the artist organized; others took place in Iceland, Poland... More
86, [1] p. 8vo (225 x 155 mm.), orig. printed red semi-stiff wrappers, title on spine. Cullompton, Devon: Beau Geste Press, 1973.
First edition, the deluxe version on vibrant multi-colored Strathmore Grandee paper and exceptionally signed twice by Carrión (1941-89). Arguments was printed in a total edition of 400 copies, 200 on Huntsman white cartridge and unsigned, and 200 deluxe copies and signed on the verso of the title-page. The present copy is remarkable for its additional signature on the recto of the first blank leaf, especially given that the artist hardly ever signed his bookworks and reluctantly produced a.... More
[25] leaves, written on rectos only. Small 4to (207 x 160 mm.), patterned softcover (extremities a little sunned), manuscript title on upper cover, exposed sewing. Amsterdam: 1973.
A most exciting discovery: the manuscript, in the hand of Ulises Carrión (1941-89), for an early bookwork. Amor, la palabra was one of no fewer than six books that he published in 1973, it is also among his rarest. As in the final printed version, this manuscript is dedicated to Carrión’s partner, Aart van Barneveld (1951-90), who co-founded Other Books and So, Stempelplaats, and Timed Based Arts: “para aart, / que estudia filología.”... More
Audiocassette tape, printed labels on side A & B, housed in a plastic case. Orig. red paper pictorial liner. Amsterdam: Time Based Arts, 1984.
Rare audiocassette of a Carrión sound work; unrecorded by WorldCat. It was originally recorded in June 1983, and then issued through Time Based Arts the following year.
“Trios & Boleros (1983) was produced as a part of a series by a number of artists, writers and composers. The Dutch public broadcasting company VPRO allocated broadcast time to individual, unrelated productions under the umbrella title of ‘Art on the Radio, the Radio as Art’. No mathematical text... More
[96] leaves, interfoliated leaves with manuscript notes identifying virtually all the participants. Folio (ca. 320 x 240 mm.), orig. color-printed covers, orig. black cloth tape over spine (small split to tail of spine). [Amsterdam: ca. 1973-84].
One of the most compelling books we have handled, and a truly remarkable discovery: Ulises Carrión’s own guest book, a re-appropriated Tarzan children’s coloring book. Throughout all the rapidly proliferating literature on the artist and his circle, we have not seen any mention of this precious book. Several of Carrión’s friends have confirmed that he asked visitors to his home in Amsterdam to color... More
Black & white illus. throughout. [16] pp. (incl. wrappers). 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Warsaw: Galeria Remont, 1976.
An extremely scarce exhibition catalogue published for Carrión’s first exhibition at Henryk Gajewski’s Galeria Remont. Gajewski (b. 1948), the Polish artist and filmmaker, founded this contemporary art space 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.
This catalogue contains the artist’s celebrated manifesto “The New Art of Making Books,” which had been published for the first time... More
159 pp. & one leaf with index & colophon. Small 8vo (180 x 115 mm.), orig. printed pictorial softcover (spine worn), author portrait on lower cover. Guaymas, Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, August 1970.
First and only edition of Carrión’s second book, a collection of six short stories, printed in a numbered edition of 3000 copies. In the 1960s, Carrión (1941-89) was one of Mexico’s emerging literary talents; a number of his short stories had been published in leading journals, and his first play, El Gran Espectáculo, was performed at the Casa de la Cultura de Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, to rave reviews. Following... More
[in]: Revista de Bellas Artes, No. 18 (November-December 1967), pp. 22-35. Black & white illus. throughout. 104 pp. 4to, orange pictorial wrappers (extremities a little rubbed), title on spine. Mexico City: 1967.
Unknown to Guy Schraenen; a story written by Ulises Carrión and published in one of Mexico’s important literary journals. Near fine.
❧ Not in G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016). More
Graphite drawings throughout on triangular paper, laminated. [6] leaves, laminated covers with ms. title, signature, and date written in blue marker, metal spiral-bound. [Amsterdam?]: Self-published, 1984.
A unique hand-drawn bookwork by Ulises Carrión (1941-89), unrecorded by Ocampo and Agius in their catalogue raisonné. In the final decade of his life, Carrión created a group of geometric and minimalist books about which very little is known. This one depicts two rectangles that are initially nearly touching but, as one turns the pages, become increasingly distanced while the rectangle on the right shrinks. The book is signed by Carrión in blue marker... More
[in]: Anuario del Cuento Mexicano 1962, pp. 82-85. 308, [1] p. & table of contents. Thick 4to, pictorial softcover (spine a little wavy & dampstained), title on spine. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1963.
Early appearance of one of Ulises Carrión’s short stories, this was his second appearance in Anuario del Cuento Mexicano. “El asalto” had been published the previous year in Revista Mexican de Literatura (Nos. 11-12).
A very good copy.
❧ Not recorded by Schraenen in Dear reader. Don’t read (2016). More
[in]: Revista de Bellas Artes, No. 8 (March-April 1966), pp. 41-56. Black & white illus. throughout. 102 pp. & ads. 4to, pink pictorial wrappers, title on spine. Mexico City: 1966.
Unrecorded by Guy Schraenen; a little-known Ulises Carrión (1941-89) contribution to one of Mexico’s literary journals. Foreshadowing his permanent move to Amsterdam, he contributed this short story about a visit to the city, with illustrations by Vicente Rojo (1932-2021). In the mid-1960s Carrión was studying in Paris or Achenmühle, Germany.
Near fine copy.
❧ Not in G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016). More
[in]: Revista Mexicana de Literatura, Nos. 9-10 (September-October 1963), pp. 16-24. 60, [1] p. & ads. 8vo, printed wrappers (minor staining to wrappers), title on spine. Coyoacán, Mexico City: 1963.
Ulises Carrión’s second appearance in the experimental literary journal Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1955-65). A very good copy of this scarce issue, edition of 2000 copies.
❧ G. Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), p. 255. More