Ulises Carrión

Please allow 7 working days to process before shipping Garment Dyed - Mustard Long Sleeve100% Combed Ring Spun Cotton Mexican-born, Amsterdam-based conceptual artist Ulises Carrión is perhaps best known for his 1974 text “The New Art of Making Books.” In this text, Carrión defines this new art as one that rejects literary aspects of the book in favor of a rigorous exploration of the book’s material, sequential, and graphic elements. While Carrión achieved success as a Mexican literary writer early in his career, by way of concrete poetry, he developed an intermedia arts practice marked by a thorough, yet broadminded analysis of systems and structures of communication.  Very consciously, Ulises Carrión worked on pre-existing concepts, materials, technologies, processes and forms to give new visibility to the forgotten ghosts and ignored phantoms of our myths and ideologies. Moreover, all his work is based on the idea of mechanical reproduction. But, and this is decisive, he never