Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Ulises Carrión | Mirror Box













Ulises Carrión
Mirror Box
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Self-published, 1979
[18] pp., 18.5 x 18.5 cm., staple-bound
Edition of 100


An Artist Book handmade and self-published by Ulises Carrión featuring images of boxers rubber-stamped with pink and blue ink. The ink bleeds through the felt, leaving a ghostly impression on the opposing pages.

Ulises Carrión was reportedly a life-long boxing aficionado, and had just edited an issue of Commonpress a year prior, titled Box, Boxing, Boxers

The title is extremely scarce and prohibitively expensive. A copy is available at Printed Matter for $3,000.00 US, here


“Mirror Box is printed on synthetic felt with rubber stamps of two boxers facing each other in sequential sparring positions. The soft touch of the page, in contrast to the strong punch of the imagery, makes for a potent allusion ot the exchange and repression of male sexuality.” 
-Tim Guest / Germano Celant, Books by Artists






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