The Museo Reina Sofía presents the retrospective Dear reader. Do not read, dedicated to Mexican creator Ulises Carrión. Carrion was an artist, editor, writer, curator and art theorist of the international avant-garde in the post-sixties, plus a key figure in Mexican conceptual art. Archivo Lafuente has provided, as on previous occasions, a significant number of works, this has made their collaboration fundamental.
The exhibition aims to illustrate all aspects of Carrión's artistic and intellectual work: from his initial career as a young writer of success in Mexico, and his college years as a graduate student in France, Germany and England during which he studied language and linguistics ; to its many activities in Amsterdam, city in which Carrion finally settled in 1972 and where he lived until his death at age 49.
About 350 pieces, including books, magazines, videos, sound works, mail art, public projects and performances, as well as its initiatives as a curator, publisher, distributor, lecturer, archivist, art theorist and writer are displayed. In addition, they exhibited for the first time all of Ulises Carrion's audiovisual works, most notably The Death of the Art Dealer (kanaal zero); Bookworks revisited; Gossip, Scandal, and Good Manners, accompanied with documentation and vintage images of other global projects.
