Clemente Padin.
Stop The Blood.
Montevideo, Uruguay/San Francisco, United States: Clemente Padin/ Private World, 1988.
12 pages in collaged portfolio with hand-written letter laid in as well as mailed envelope.
English with some Spanish.
Very good.
Bumping and creasing to portfolio which has been collaged on front and back covers as well as inside. Inside front cover, a Clemente Padin designed stamp has been affixed. Inside back cover of portfolio, Private World has handwritten instructions to return finished work to his address. Padin's address stamp to back cover. Light creasing to pages. Original mailing envelope has creasing and tears. Padin's address stamp to envelope has been crossed out with new address.
Unique book of collages by Padin illustrating in stark and at times comical ways the insanity of war, hunger, poverty, empty subculture, racism, etc and made in response to Private World's (a.k.a. Iain G. Hamilton) "Time Capsule" project. Hamilton mailed blank portfolios to select correspondence artists, intended for them to customize with their art and return.
Laid in is a letter, in Spanish, inviting Clemente Padin to participate in the Pacific Coast Conference on Latin American Studies at San Diego State University and exhibit his art while in attendance. On the back, he has handwritten a letter to Private World saying he will attend this conference if he is able to obtain a visa.
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.
