Ulises Carrión
From Bookworks to Mailworks
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Other Books and So, Stedelijk Museum, 1978
12 pp., 31.5 x 23 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown
An exhibition catalog for Van kunstenaarsboeken Tot Postkunst, curated by Ulises Carrión for the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar in the fall of 1978. The title features black-and-white images of exhibited work alongside Dutch and English essays in red text and includes a stapled photocopy of the original exhibition checklist. With contributions by Regina Silveira, Donald Burgy, J.H. Kocman, Roy Grayson, Henryk Gajewski, Thomas Ockerse, Clemente Padín, and Richard Kostelanetz.
The invitation card and announcement poster for the exhibition are below.
“[T]his exhibition tries to show the contact points, the relationships, between artists’ bookworks and Mail Art. Both forms are contemporary (they belong more or less to the last two decades) and influence and enrich each other. Although it isn’t possible to draw a chronological sequence leading from one art form to the other, I want to show that Mail Art radicalizes some tendencies in the evolution of the art process—evolution that the bookworks had triggered, and that such radicalization has important formal consequences.”
- Ulises Carrión
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