Padin, Clemente - Juan y Maria: Acontecimiento Artistico-Social (1988)
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Clemente Padin.
Juan y Maria: Acontecimiento Artistico-Social
Montevideo, Uruguay: Clemente Padin, 1988.
Staple-bound softcover.
16 pages including covers.
Spanish and some English.
16 pages including covers.
Spanish and some English.
Very good.
Light creasing top right.
Original mailing envelope with mail artist John Held Jr.'s handwritten address has creasing, piece of flap torn off, stamped return address, and postage stamps and markings.
Light creasing top right.
Original mailing envelope with mail artist John Held Jr.'s handwritten address has creasing, piece of flap torn off, stamped return address, and postage stamps and markings.
Scarce book self-published by Padin documenting a 1988 performance action, dedicated to Alain Arias-Misson, intended to be a commentary against the economic situation in Uruguay and consequent mass emigration of youth. Texts by Clemente Padin. Photographs by Fernando González & Celma García.
" JOHN & MARY
The Montevidean streets felt touched yesterday afternoon by an artistic action which gathered twenty youths directed by Clemente Padín. Carrying large letters with the words 'John' and 'Mary', the youths went around the montevidean town, standing next to buildings and signs in front of Artigas's mausoleum, under the 'dor of the city' and among people who were passing by at that time. Following the walk of 'John' and 'Mary' a loudspeaker played rock and rolls and differents words connected with the youths.
It was touching to listen to 'bye, good-bye, bye, good-bye' related to the one hundred and fifty Uruguayans who daily emigrate finding among them a pamphlet to the audience just with the question 'Why?' and a number of revindications related to the youth's problematic. The artistic action framed in the previous activities to the 'What to do for love to art', ended up at 'Libertad Square', where 'John' and 'Mary', were close to the relatives who Friday by Friday claim for the appearing of their relatives.
As it is indicated in the pamphlet given to the people 'this social-artistic action tries to be a help to the solution of the youths' problem'.
LA HORA
16 de setiembre de 1988 Montevideo-Uruguay"
The Montevidean streets felt touched yesterday afternoon by an artistic action which gathered twenty youths directed by Clemente Padín. Carrying large letters with the words 'John' and 'Mary', the youths went around the montevidean town, standing next to buildings and signs in front of Artigas's mausoleum, under the 'dor of the city' and among people who were passing by at that time. Following the walk of 'John' and 'Mary' a loudspeaker played rock and rolls and differents words connected with the youths.
It was touching to listen to 'bye, good-bye, bye, good-bye' related to the one hundred and fifty Uruguayans who daily emigrate finding among them a pamphlet to the audience just with the question 'Why?' and a number of revindications related to the youth's problematic. The artistic action framed in the previous activities to the 'What to do for love to art', ended up at 'Libertad Square', where 'John' and 'Mary', were close to the relatives who Friday by Friday claim for the appearing of their relatives.
As it is indicated in the pamphlet given to the people 'this social-artistic action tries to be a help to the solution of the youths' problem'.
LA HORA
16 de setiembre de 1988 Montevideo-Uruguay"
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.