Marcos Kurtycz


Marcos Kurtycz was a performance and graphic artist.

Background

Born in Poland in 1934 as Jan Kurtycz, he moved to Mexico in 1968 where he experimented with graphic design and performance art until 1996. Kurtycz artworks were often complex matrices combining performances and graphic design elements, including photographs, drawings, maps, wax forms, stamps, letters, musical notation and even axes and explosives. His performances and his photographic and print works on paper have influenced Mexico City artists. Kurtycz is known for his use of printing techniques in his graphic artworks. In the 1970s he mobilized his art projects into a challenge to the art establishment, including mail bombs, intended to push art establishment leaders beyond traditional conceptions of what constitutes art. Marcos Kurtycz is the father of graphic artist Anna Kurtycz.

List of selected installations and performances

  • Plastic algorithms
  • La Rueda
  • La muerte de un impresor
  • Un libro diario. Homage to George Orwell.
  • Zero Village
  • CMAMOTH
  • Serpent rouge, vert et blanc
  • Egg Snake and Serpiente Escalera
  • Proportions of Snake and Fax Snake
  • Serpiente del Metro

List of selected posthumous exhibits