ULISES CARRIÓN, party in Banstraat, late 1970’s
Category: CARRIÓN, ULISES
MICHAEL GIBBS, Extinction, 1974
9,9 x 14,7 cm
booklet, 8 pp., stapled
published by In-Out productions, Amsterdam
condition: fine, 1 cm wide light scuffing at top edge of front cover, slightly colour aged
€ 180,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MGib 1135
This booklet was purchased at Other Books and So in Amsterdam that was owned and run by Ulises Carrión. At the top right corner of the cover Ulises made notes in pencil about the price (Dfl. 1,-) and from whom the copies were taken in stock, here 8x ‘car’ in total. As such this copy has a special touch of archival history.
Gibbs’s first solo exhibition after having moved to Amsterdam was “Extinction” which was held from March 26 to April 6, 1974 in In-Out Center. It was closely related to the theme ‘language operations’ of his concrete and visual poetry, for which this booklet was published. He used photomontage superimposing an alphabet that becomes energized while obliterated by a fire extinguisher. For that action a polystyrene and hardboard template of the alphabet was doused in petrol, set on fire, and put out with an extinguisher by the artist. The same year Gibbs performed ‘Extinction’ life on 21 november 1974 at de Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht.
History of price:
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK US$ 90.17, 1 October 2021
ULISES CARRIÓN, De Diefstal Van Het Jaar, 1982
29,6 x 21 cm
offset on paper, twice folded as mailed
condition: splendid
€ 465,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.UCar 1060
ULISES CARRIÓN, Anonymous Quotations, 1979
29,7 x 21 cm
offset on paper, twice folded as mailed
condition: splendid
Void Distributors was a publishing house founded by Hetty Huisman. On an irregular basis events took place for a small incrowd of people who were invited to attend a presentation or performance in her studio at Anjeliersstraat 153 in Amsterdam.
Editions & Communications marginales d’Amerique Latine, 1977
21 x 29,7 cm
risoprint, stapled, folded as issued: 15 x 21 cm, 9 pp.
organised by Guy Schraenen
published by Maison de la Culture du Havre, Le Havre, France
inv.GSchr 1026
This publication was issued on behalf of a group exhibition curated by Guy Schraenen. Felipe Ehrenberg, Ulises Carrión, Raúl Marroquin, Flavio Pons, Claudio Goulart among many others participated.
History of price:
Zwiggelaar Auctions, Amsterdam, 9 December 2022 € 400,- (hammer price)
ULISES CARRIÓN, Vereniging van Videokunstenaars bulletin, maart – april 1983
21,1 x 15 cm
16 pp., incl. couver
very rare
published by VvV, Amsterdam
excellent condition, although very slightly aged paper
€ 280,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.UCar 991
On page 10 of the VvV bulletin March – April 1983 the première of Ulises Carrión’s video work The Death of the Art Dealer is announced.
ULISES CARRIÓN, The Muxlows, 1978
22,9 x 11 cm
SC, 100 pp.
edition 300
published by Verlaggalerie Leaman, Düsseldorf, Germany
condition: slightly aged, at cover top side 3 tiny dents
€ 1.200,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.UCar 06-pr
Introduction on fly leave:
‘The Muxlows’ is the history of an English family from Yorkshire. I found it in 1972, in the city of Leeds, in the last pages of a badly damaged bible. U.C.’
This book is a dry list of names that goes back to 1835 when Thomas Muxlow was born. It is the start of genealogical facts limited to birth and death. The first chapter “Parents names” is followed by “Childrens names”, “Marriages” and “Other family events”. In this way a family story is told as a family drama of generations, i.e. family members come and go. Again with this book Carrión’s shows his strong affinity with the method of archival order to set out a story similar to writing a novel.
KvG
A copy is in the Collection of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
History of price:
Ecart-Books, Geneva, Switzerland June 2022 SFr 1.700,-
HETTY HUISMAN, Letters to friends, 1977
29,7 x 21 cm
stencil print
published by Other Books and So, Amsterdam
condition: good, although obviously aged wood-containing paper
extremely rare
€ 280,- plus Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.HHui 945-pr
Extra information
The exhibition showed a collection of handmade unique artists’ books from a series of 15, containing diary-like texts, drawings and collages and published in Korsow, Curaçao, Cabaron Press, 1976. Each booklet was addressed to a friend in The Netherlands while Huisman was temporarily living in Curacao. Staple bound graph books, each 19 x 25,5 cm, 24 pp. with handwritten text, ink and graphite drawings, rubber stamps and collaged photos. All signed, dated and stamped by the artist.
Hetty Huisman (1941-2017) was a Dutch artist working in a variety of fields. She made ceramic based works, albeit with a conceptual and destructive approach, and was a prolific publisher of artists’ books through her imprint Void Editions. Huisman published her own artists’ books and works by others such as Ulises Carrion (Second Thoughts), Henryk Gajewski, John Liggins. In the 1970s she was one of the founders of the In-Out Center artists’ space in Amsterdam. She curated exhibitions in her studio as well as at her temporary gallery in Curaçao where she also launched Cabaron Press.
RAÚL MARROQUIN, invitation card “Original Books”, 1976
9,7 x 14,8 cm
red ink stamp, postal stamp dated: “24-III-1976”
published by Other Books and So, Amsterdam / Ulises Carrión
condition: splendid
rare
€ 300,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.RMarr 872
TIME BASED ARTS, Videotape Performance Installation, catalogue, 1984
21,5 x 15,6 x 3,8 cm
122 loose cards, card holder
incl. list of 59 artists on “Index” card and list of 82 artists on “Contents” card
condition: very good, although the cover has very slight traces of use and stack of cards is pristine, apart from tiny dog’s ear on price list (top card)
extremely rare in this condition
€ 1.080,- plus € 20,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.TBarts 865
This catalogue contains loose cards with an “Index” card on the top part of the stack showing a list of 59 artists, although a “Contents” card at the bottom of the stack shows an extended and final list of 82 participating artists.
The names in bold are only featured on the “Index” card and for some reason they don’t appear on the more elaborated loose list of “Contents” at the end of the stack.
VITO ACCONCI
SIREEN ABDOELRAHMAN
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
LOUS AMERICA
LAURIE ANDERSEN
ARNO ARTS
BABETH
PETER BAREN
CHRISTIAAN BASTIAANS
JACOBA BEDAUX
MARCELLE VAN BEMMEL
ARTHUR BERKHOF
LEONIE BODEVING
KLAUS BOEGEL
HANS BREDER
KLAUS VOM BRUCH
DANIEL BRUN
PHYLIS BULKIN
ULISES CARRION
CHRISTINE CHIFFRUN
PIETER CORNELISSEN
DANIEL DANIEL
BEN D’ARMAGNAC
PAUL DOUGHERTHY
MICHAEL DRUKS
JAAP DRUPSTEEN
SWITHAN I DULAYE
ROSE FINN-KELCEY
MARION GADIOT
HENRYK GAJEWSKI
GAMMAGLUBOLINE
DAVID GARCIA
GENERAL IDEA
AD GERRITSEN
CLAUDIO GOULART
HEINER HOLTAPPELS
NAN HOOVER
MADELON HOOYKAAS
ELLEN M. JANSSEN
JAAP DE JONGE
VIC JOSEPH
CHRISTINE KOENIGS
HARRIE DE KROON
DIEK KUBBE
UWE F. LAYSIEPEN
JOHN LIGGINS
CHRISTINA LINARIS-CORIDOU
ANGELA LINDERS
FRITS MAATS
RAUL MARROQUIN
HEIKE MELBA FENDEL
ERIC METCALFE
MICHAEL MORRIS
PAUL MULLER
ANTONIO MUNTADAS
IAN NICHOLS
ROBERT J. NOTTROT
MARCEL ODENBACH
YVONNE OERLEMANS
HENNIE VAN OOSTEN
ASTA OLAFSDOTTIR
HENNY VAN OOSTEN
FLAVIO PONS
INE POPPE
FABIENNE DE QUASA RIERA
MIKE QUEE
ULRIKE ROSENBACH
LYDIA SCHOUTEN
MICHAEL SHABTAY
JEFFREY SHAW
TJARDA SIXMA
ELSA STANSFIELD
RELLY TARLO
ROOS THEUWS
VINCENT TRASOV
UNDERPASS
PAULA VANES
JULIA VENTURA
MARIEKEN VERHEYEN
MICHIEL VIJSELAAR
LAWRENCE WEINER
WACKENHUT
VICTOR WENTINCK
ALBERT VAN WESTING
ANNIE WRIGHT