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Subject(s)

• Kurtycz, Marcos—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Performance art—Mexico [Browse]

Author

• García Kobeh, Ana María [Browse]

Editor

• Schulz, Sara [Browse]

Related name

• Kurtycz, Marcos [Browse]

Summary note

Marcos Kurtycz (Poland, 1934 - Mexico, 1996), considered a "ritualist" and a "cultural terrorist", he is one of the most captivating artists of the conceptualist scene in Mexico. Dedicated to editorial design and artistic practice, he played a leading role in the history of performance and alternative media. Kurtycz made hundreds of publications and printing actions that intertwine the machinist utopias of cybernetics with the reflection on the body, its prostheses, vulnerability and eroticism. He turned the book into a space of play, where desire and the boundaries between masculine and feminine, graphic arts and living art seem to dissolve. Mara Polgovsky's essays make up a shrewd reflection that stretches the notion of corporeality in his work, in order to situate it with acuity as the very material of creation. Ana María García Kobeh offers vivid snapshots of the actions; Her perspective delves into the conservation of the artist's archive and the importance of this ensemble for the approach to his work. “This approach, more performative than representative, to the book object is present in the work of many who collaborated with El Archivero, such as Ricardo Rocha, Santiago Rebolledo, Vicente Rojo and Magali Lara, as well as one of its founders. In fact, numerous books that were created, exhibited, or exchanged there became not only conceptual propositions, but also nodes for the articulation of small networks of intimacy, dialogue and artistic collaboration.” --Translated from page 85.

Notes

• Accompanying poster titled "Diagram Kurtycz" is a biographical timeline of Marcos Kurtycz' life experiences, friends and relationships, art actions and productions, mail art, books, performances (and performances creating books) and installation art.
• Letters for English title in cover are backwards.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-441).

Language note

Texts in Spanish and English.

Contents

• Entre los pliegues: libros, obra, poética y erotismo = Between the folds: book-works, poetics and eroticism / MP
• El discurso crítico de Kurtycz = Kurtycz's critical speech / MP
• El Archivo Marcos Kurtycz = The Marcos Kurtycz Archive / AMGK
• Matrices: rostros, muebles e imaginarios cibernéticos = Matrices: Faces, Furniture and Cybernetic Imaginaries / MP.

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Other title(s)

• Corporalidad al límite
• Corporeality unbound

ISBN

• 9786079851422
• 6079851423

OCLC

1427624086

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