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
ULISES CARRIÓN, Trios & Boleros, announcement card, 1983
9,8 x 22,7 cm
radio program ‘Art on the Radio – Radio as Art’, VPRO Hilversum 3
photo copy print
rare
inv.UCarr 833
ULISES CARRIÓN, Bókasyning / Bookshow, 1980
12 x 17.3 cm
invitation card
Nylistasafnid / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
stamp ink and wear at right top corner caused by mailing
rare
€ 300,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.UCarr 823
“This exhibition includes books by more than one hundred artists from 25 countries. Except for a special Icelandic section asembled [sic] by Árni Ingólfsson, they all come from the Other Books and So Archive of Amsterdam.
Although varying in origin scope, and intentions, all the books in this show are outstanding examples of ‘book art’ – each one of them was conceived as an autonomous art work.
Whether by means of typography, photography, handwriting, photocopy or drawing, they subvert our age old understanding of books and open up new hopes for the book’s significance in an era of multimedia communication. U. Carrión.”
See: ULISES CARRIÓN, Other Books, exhibition leaflet with list of artist’s books.
ALLAN KAPROW, announcement, 1977
28 x 21,5 cm
original photo copy and folded as issued and mailed
published by Other Books and So, Amsterdam
rare
inv.AKapr 825
This leaflet announces an exhibition of posters and flyers of happenings by Allan Kaprow, who is known for being the inventor of happenings, a term he coined in New York in 1958.
Rubber, 1978, ‘Ulises Carrión’
Vol. 1, no. 6
23,4 x 16,2 cm
bulletin, 8 pp. incl. cover, 10 original ink stamps by Ulises Carrion
good condition
published by Stempelplaats, Amsterdam
€ 345,- plus € 18,- registered mail Track & Trace
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This issue of Rubber bulletin is entirely made on and by Ulises Carrión. It is one of the most important publications that reveal specifically his theories and practical thoughts about ink stamping in the visual arts. With short statements he comes to innovative points of view:
‘Every print of a rubber-stamp implies a choice by the artist. He creates not only when he designs his rubber-stamp, but also everytime he makes a print.’
‘In contrast with other means of reproduction – photography, for instance – rubber-stamps are associated with power.
Artists’ rubber-stamps reminds us of those other rubber-stamps that actually control and direct our lives.’ (p.7)
On the inner side of the cover a date stamp ’39 JAN 1988’ is depicted. This ink stamp refers to his concept of “Artists Work for the Future”. Through his choices of appropriation like homages, references, quotations, parodies and allusions he touches the notion of the worn out past and overestimated trends. Ink stamping is one of the media that can generate an interesting impetus to overcome clichés and open up unexplored territories today and in the future. In this sense ‘Artists work for the future’.
Ulises Carrión (1941-1989) was an artist, editor, curator, gallerist, archivist and theorist of the post-1970s avant-garde.
ULISES CARRIÓN, Projekt Clues, 1981
ULISES CARRIÓN, Projekt Clues, 1981
11,5 x 21 cm
stencil print
rare
Ulises Carrión, Rob or Marta, ca 1981, invitation to participate
ULISES CARRIÓN, Rob or Marta, n.d. [ca 1981]
14,4 x 10,4 cm
stencil print
condition: top side slightly bumped due to mailing
extremely rare
€ 450,- plus € 15,- registered mail Track & Trace
The text on this invitation reads: ‘I’m going to produce an artwork involving people named either Rob (Bob, Robert, Roberto, etc.) or Marta (Martha, Marthe, etc.). Profession, nationality, and place of residence are irrelevant. Please return this card to me if you want further information.’
FANDANGOS – nrs. 8.9.10.11 superb issue!, 1978
30 x 21 cm
stickers, ink stamps
signed by Raúl Marroquin as Superbman
edition 500
published by Raúl Marroquin, Maastricht, Netherlands
excellent condition, very slightly aged
€ 225,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail
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This 4-in-1 Fandangos magazine has been the last issue of a series of 11 publications.
Numerous contributions by Raúl Marroquin including ‘From Video to T.V where he writes that ‘It is about time that Video Art becomes Television Art’ and Marroquin’s Vampires project, Paul Carter, Julia Hayward, Jana Haimsohn, Darcy Lange, Antonio Caro, Baladi, Angelika Schmid, Jonier Marin, Montadas, C. Garcia, Tobe Carey, Klaus Staek (2 pages), Jan Patric, David Zacki, J. Charlin, Eduard Bal, Sanja Ivekovic, Michel Cardena’s Live Video Performance (7 pages, includes Cardena rubberstamp), Tony Morgan’s live video performance at de appel, Marjo Schumans, Ben D’Armagnac, Elsa Stansfield, Madieon Hooykaas, Jantje Tetelepta, I. Akel, Joshua Jansen, Relly Carlo, Nan Hoover photographs from video by Koos Bay, Tony Pegotti (5 pages), Michael Krzyzanowski (2 pages), Ger van Dijk, John Liggins, Bob Takes/Michiel Romeyn, ‘Languages my friends speak’ by Ulises Carrion, Jorgos Chronis, Michael Gibbs, Marten Hendriks/ Ad Gerritsen, Marianne Heske, Kirsten Bates and Taki Bluesinger ‘Plumbing Repairs simplified’ (4 pages), Jenna Van Eegan, Richard Hefti, Yves de Smet, Nikolaus Urban, Jan Hendrix (3 pages), Reindeer Werk, Martha Hawley, Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Hutchinson, Phillip Pearlman, Anne Tardos, Roger Cutforth, Willoughby Sharp’s collage narratives ‘The Nation, the Region, Ideas and trends.’ (10 pages), R Heyman, Douglas Davis, Jean Depuy, Scott Burton, Larry Miller, Jacki Apple, Laurie Anderson, Jeffrey Deitch, Dalibor Martinis, Marcia Resnick, Anna Banana (3 pages), Rita Yokoi. The photographs by Geurt Van Dijk, A.Rainer and Dieter Rot, Luigi Ontani, Boltanski, Ad Gerritsen, A.Messager, Jurgen Klauke, B.Sleeuwenhoek all include the artists’ names in rubber stamps next to the images. Also ink stamps of various emblemata.
Includes articles on “Superbman”, the ‘nation’s number one citizen’, a character created by Raul Marroquin who, the article describes, was appointed as “Friendship Ambassador to Europe”. The article is uniquely handsigned by Raul Marroquin as Superbman: “With love Fandangos – Superbman” in red marker pen. Includes another article on Superbman’s nemesis a sado-masochistic underworld-type character called ‘Nikos Nukos the Worst’.
Other articles include “A lecture on video in museum” by Drs I.L Szenassy (5 pages in Dutch) and ‘Visual poetry as a form of marginal art’ by Peter Frank. Interviews with Ulises Carrion (in English) Maarten van Regteren Altena (in English), Robert Filliou (in Spanish), ‘Yogo’ the false-name of a Dutch drug trafficker (in English), Costa Gravas (in French), Art Taylor (in English), and Mohammed Ali (In English). Articles and texts vary between in English, Dutch, Spanish and French.
History of prices:
UnOriginals, UK April 2024 GBP 245.-
William Allen Word & Image, London 26 December 2020 GBP 125.-
ULISES CARRIÓN, The Muxlows, 1978
22.9 x 11 cm
artist’s book, 100 pp., SC
edition 300
published by Verlaggalerie Leaman, Düsseldorf, Germany
condition: excellent, although slightly discolored cover
€ 1.450,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail
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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 October 2023 SFr 1.700,-