Padin, Clemente (Editor) - Participacion 8: Boletin de la Asociacion Uruguaya de Artistas Correo April 1985

Clemente Padín (Editor). 

Participacion 8: Boletin de la Asociacion Uruguaya de Artistas Correo.

Montevideo, Uruguay: Asociacion Uruguaya de Artistas Correo, 1985. 

Staple-bound softcover.  
4 pages including covers. 
Spanish.

Very good.
Two folds and tape residue from mailing. Addressed by hand to mail artist Private World. Postage stamps. Minor edgewear. 

Scarce newsletter published by Asociacion Uruguaya de Artistas Correo in April 1985. The Uruguayan Association of Mail Artists was a collective of mail artists in the 1980s. The first issue stated that it was edited by Clemente Padín, however this one does not, but his address is given as the newsletter's mailing address. 

Articles include 
 “América latina: una nueva etapa en el desarrollo del Arte Correo” by N. N. Argañaraz. 
“Intercambio cultural Nicaragua Uruguay”.
“Arte-Correo. Nuevos procesos de significación artística” by César Espinosa. 
“Noticias de la AUAC”.
"Por los derechos del trabajador”.
“Invitaciones” with interesting calls for international exhibitions, mail art solicitations, etc from Guillermo Deisler, Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, Ruud Janssen, Clemente Padín and Jorge Caraballo, etc. 

An illustration by Henning Mittendorf and an advertisement for "O Dos: Revisit de Arte Correo". 

A Uruguayan artist, poet, and publisher, Padin edited the influential literary magazines Los Huevos del Plata and OVUM 10 which put him in contact with the international avant garde. A participant in mail art, his artistic and political endeavors landed him in jail in the late '70s and surveilled upon release til the mid '80s, deemed a threat by Uruguay's military dictatorship. 

OCLC: University of Texas. (MOMA has scattered issues, but not this number).