Flyer for Carrión’s installation at the Drents Museum: “De Diefstal van het Jaar, 3 t/m 7 Februari 1982.”
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Coated paper with black & white illus. Assen, Netherlands: 1982. The rare promotional poster for one of Ulises Carrión’s experimental public installations; the present copy is in particularly fine condition and has not been folded or creased. Entitled The Robbery of the Year, this exhibition was designed by the artist as a test of visitors’ self-restraint. A large diamond was placed on a cushion, without any enclosure but with a single spotlight trained on it, in an otherwise... Read More
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“We have won! Haven’t we?”
by (CARRIÓN, Ulises)
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... Read More
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Second Thoughts
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
70 pp. Small 4to (210 x 160 mm.), pictorial semi-stiff wrappers, title on spine. Amsterdam: VOID distributors, 1980. The essential compendium of Ulises Carrión’s polemical essays; printed in an edition of 500 by Hetty Huisman’s VOID Distributors. His trailblazing theories and beliefs about artists’ books and mail art remain influential to this day. “The New Art of Making Books,” first published in Plural no. 41 (1975), is frequently cited by contemporary book artists. The book... Read More
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Feedback Pieces (2 March-11 April)
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Single sheet exhibition invitation torn into ca. two dozen pieces. Amsterdam: Pieter Brattinga Gallery, 1981. One of Ulises Carrión’s rarest mail art projects, with the original mailed envelope sent to the collector Tjeerd Deelstra (b. 1937). As the artist intended (explained below), a small torn portion is not present. “In 1981, when the Print Gallery Pieter Brattinga invited Carrión to exhibit his work there, Carrión thought of a response project in which he instructed participants to reconstruct,... Read More
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Inne Ksiazki, 8 – 30.5.1977
by CARRIÓN, Ulises, curator
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... Read More
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“El asalto”
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
[in]: Revista Mexicana de Literatura, Nos. 11-12 (November-December 1962), pp. 17-22. 81 pp. & ads. 8vo, printed wrappers (lacking lower wrapper). Mexico City: 1962. Ulises Carrión’s first appearance in the experimental literary journal Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1955-65). A good copy; some chipping to the upper wrapper and marginal dampstaining to the final few leaves of text. ❧ G. Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read (2016), p. 255 (as “Un Cuento”).
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(rrr)
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
[19] pp. Square 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Geneva: Boabooks, 2016. From the colophon: "(rrr) reproduces nine pages typewritten by Ulises Carrión in 1972." Printed and bound by Che Huber and Alexis Dos Santos and designed by Izet Sheshivari. As new, unknown edition size.
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Sonnet(s)
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Several illus. [46], 133 pp. 8vo, blue printed softcover, perfect-bound. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020. Handsomely printed re-publication of Ulises Carrión’s 1972 classic Sonnet(s). Fully reprinted here, in the 1972 bookwork Carrión devised 44 variations on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet “Heart’s Compass.” With insightful essays and contributions by Veronica Gerber Bicecci, Annette Gilbert, Monica de la Torre, Michalis Pichler, Heriberto Yepez, India Johnson, and Felipe Becerra. As new. Published through In-Out Productions in an edition of... Read More
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Flyer announcement for Carrión’s In Alphabetical Order (1979), a bookwork published by bi-monthly Cres magazine
by (CARRIÓN, Ulises)
Black & white illus. Illustrated flyer, horizontal & vertical folds. Amsterdam: 1979. Promotional flyer for the artist’s forthcoming bookwork, offered for 12.50 guilders or $6 per copy. In fine condition.
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HHH…
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Two torn pieces of watermarked paper, typewritten(?) text, mounted on black craft paper, signed. [Amsterdam]: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. The artist has initialed the bottom left corner of the left sheet. ❧ G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2015), pp. 110 & 117 (pictured).
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Arguments
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
96 unnumbered pages. Thick 8vo (210 x 150 mm.), semi-stiff printed wrappers. Geneva: Editions Héros-Limite, 2005. The scarce second edition of Ulises Carrión’s famous Arguments (1st ed.: 1973, published by the Beau Geste Press). In the Getty Research Institute exhibition catalogue Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists (2018), Zanna Gilbert writes (about the first edition): “Carrión humorously interrogates the structure and content of books and the literary devices used by authors and playwrights. The titular exchanges... Read More
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Het Andre Behr Pamflet 23: Before and After, Ulises Carrión
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Port. on lower wrapper. [13] pp. 8vo, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Amsterdam: Boekie Woekie, 2012. A facsimile of Before and After, an unpublished typescript bookwork composed by Carrión in 1972. As suggested in Raul Marroquin’s note at the end of the publication, this work may precede Sonnet(s). Fine; staples rusted. WorldCat locates no example in North America.
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Announcement card for the Other Books and So exhibition Stamp Art, 200 Artists (27 April-15 May 1976)
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
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... Read More
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A signed & stamped collage, torn sheet of graph paper (151 x ca. 105 mm.) pasted to a blank sheet (210 x 148 mm.), both rubber-stamped with the same impression “G……” & “oal” written with black ink, Carrión’s signature on lower right of blank sheet
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Amsterdam: ca. 1979. An original collage made by Ulises Carrión (1941-89) and gifted to Maurizio Nannucci (b. 1939) in support of Zona’s non-profit mission following the Zona Parolo & Suono festival (11-19 June 1979). Near fine; very faint foxing and residue from the glue. ❧ See G. Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), pp. 120-23, for similar collages by Carrión employing graph paper.
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Table
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Single purple paper sheet (295 x 210 mm.), mounted on beige paper, collaged yellow pieces of paper with ms. text in ink & graphite, signed. [Amsterdam]: 1977. A Ulises Carrión language work with manuscript text on the collaged strips of paper. In fine condition; adhesive in corners bleeding through the paper. Inscribed in the lower left corner: “Ulises Carrión, ‘77.” From the collection of Guy Schraenen (1941-2018). ❧ G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2015),... Read More
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Works by Ulises Carrión: Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners
by (CARRIÓN, Ulises)
Black & white illus. 51 pp. & colophon. 4to, stamped softcover, stapled with black cloth tape over spine. London: Royal College of Art, 2010. The rare exhibition catalogue for an innovative presentation of Carrión’s work at the Showroom (12-26 June 2010) in London. Supervised by Clare Carolin, it was organized by first-year MA Curating Contemporary Art students at the Royal College of Art, and staged with the help of Martha Hellion, a close friend of the artist... Read More
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A signed & stamped collage, torn sheet of graph paper (150 x ca. 110 mm.) pasted to a blank sheet (210 x 148 mm.), both rubber-stamped with the same impression “G……” & “oal” written with blue ink, Carrión’s signature in lower right corner of blank sheet
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Amsterdam: ca. 1979. An original collage made by Ulises Carrión (1941-89) and gifted to Maurizio Nannucci (b. 1939) in support of Zona’s non-profit mission, following the Zona Parolo & Suono festival (11-19 June 1979). Near fine; faint foxing. ❧ See G. Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), pp. 120-23, for similar works by Carrión employing graph paper.
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Catalogue 245: Ulises Carrión II, Including Selections from the Collection of Guy Schraenen (1941-2018)
by (CARRION, Ulises)
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... Read More
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Program: 6 Plays by Ulises Carrión, with Darling Darlene & William Gaglione, La Mamelle 70th 12 st. San Francisco, November 20, 21, 9:03 p.m., $4
by (CARRIÓN, Ulises)
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,... Read More
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HHH…
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Two torn pieces of watermarked paper, typewritten(?) text, mounted on black craft paper, signed. [Amsterdam]: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. The artist has initialed the bottom left corner of the left sheet. ❧ G. Schraenen, Dear reader. Don’t read. (2015), pp. 110 & 117 (pictured).
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Exhibition card: “conjunctions” by ulises carrión at the art meeting place, 48 earlham street… (17 March-3 April [1975])
by (CARRIÓN, Ulises)
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. ... Read More
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Beeld Boeken
by CARRIÓN, Ulises, contributor
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... Read More
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Postcard (150 x 105 mm.), printed on recto and stamped “ART IS:” on verso
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
Amsterdam: 1977. The blue version of this postcard distributed by Ulises Carrión for his Definitions of art exhibition, held at Other Books and So in March 1977. Recipients were asked to respond with their definition of art on the verso. Carrión received 367 answers. From the recto: “A show called ‘Definitions of art’ will be held at OTHER BOOKS AND SO Herengracht 227 Amsterdam from 1st March to 26th March 1977. Everybody is invited to participate,... Read More
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De Alemania
by CARRIÓN, Ulises
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... Read More
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Rubber Stamp Books (February 1979)
by CARRIÓN, Ulises, curator
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... Read More
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