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Marcos Kurtycz is one of the most captivating artists of the conceptualist scene in Mexico. He is considered a ritualist and a cultural terrorist. His work has been dedicated to editorial design and artistic practice and engraved as part of performance and alternative media’s history. Today, the artist’s work shines in the book Marcos Kurtycz: corporalidad al limite | Corporeality Unbound, a book by Mara Polgovsky and Ana María García Kobeh, edited by Sara Schulz in Fauna.
Mara Polgovsky is a writer and researcher. Her publications focus on Latin American history, theory, and visual culture, with particular interest in the body, the politics of aesthetics, performativity, and notions of The Living and The Human in art.
Ana María García Kobeh is an artist. From 1979 to 1995, he collaborated with Kurtycz, producing projects and actions. Today, she maintains and safeguards the Marcos Kurtycz Archive while continuing with his artistic and teaching practice.
Mara Polgovsky’s essays in this book form a shrewd reflection that strains the notion of corporality in her work and sharply situates it as the raw material of creation. For her part, Ana María García Kobeh offers vivid narrative snapshots of the actions; her perspective delves into the conservation of Kurtycz’s archive and the importance of this set for the approach to his work.
Kurtycz made hundreds of publications and printing actions that intertwine the machinist utopias of cybernetics with reflection on the body, its prostheses, vulnerability, and eroticism. He made the book a playground where desire thrives, and the limits between the masculine and the feminine and the graphic arts and living art seem to dissolve.
Marcos Kurtycz: corporality to the Limit | Corporeality Unbound is a book designed by Priscila Vanneuville and edited by Sara Schulz. It is now available in the usual bookstores in Mexico.
This work could not be possible without the support of the Support System for Creation and Cultural Projects through the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments, 2022, and thanks to the support of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, and Ethra gallery.
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