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RADIO P.I.C.A. EDITORIAL has influenced thWSandS of people. lrorn other Black MountainJ faculty like John Cage and Willem and Elaine DeKooning to his , contemporaries like Andy Warhd, Robert Rauschenberg. Informaba P.O.Box en el suplemento al nQ 6 mes de febrero del suicidio de Ray Johnson Jasper Johns and the Fluxus g:wp (whom he rnet when he Ray Johnson el pasado 14 de enero en Sag Harbor - Long Ialand (N.Y.), este moved to New York in the -Ws) to an entire generation 01 número está dedicado integramente al que fuera fundador de la N.Y. Corres- 1927-1995 se está celebrando ywnger aitists who called him ?he Grsnddaddy oí mail art.' pondance School y tal como informabamos en P.O.Box nQ 6, (This time ir's for real) en el momento de la redacción de este número la muestra de Fax Art " PRAY Hitory may also eventualy see Ray Johi~sonas the lirst pop FOR RAY, IN A AMEMORY OP RAY JOHNSOH" organizada por The Administration artist. His 1955 collages using the Wiiages oí James Dean and Centre - Guy Bleus en el Begijnhof, Centrum Voor Kunsten en Hasselt The follomng rnessage was senl Out over Ihe lnlernel on (Belgica), de' la que informaremos en próximos números. Sunday. January 15. 1995.1 wrole it quid-& tmrn rnernory. An Elvis pre-date Andy Warhol's and most of his contemporanes updated, probably more accurale. version will tdlow. by several years. In additicn to making elegant collages. which he called 'moticos.' Ray hosled many happenings and events at Ray Johnson nació en 1927 en Detroit (Michigan), ya en los afios 40 us6 la correspondencia artistica con sus amigos, , fu6 alumno de la experimental 'm sorry to annwnce that Ray Johnson, the lwnder d the various locations arwnd Manhatian in the 1960's. These Black Mountain College en Carolina del Norte, del que fub profesor Joseph New York Conespondance School and a man who play- adim drew everyone in the art wodd and started the cross- Albere, en la que encontramos a John Cage, Robert Raushenberg y otros. fully announced his own death many times, died for real pdlenation of personalities that became his correspondence Contemporaneo de Andy Warhol, Jasper Johne y el grupo FlwPop Art mucho antes que el propio Warhol, la askmg them to add lo them and send them on lo another per- utilización del collage de figuras de la "cultura popularw como James Dean, He drowned dunng a visit to Sag Harbor, New York. He was son. often using his unique brand of inluitive word play as his Elvis eon anteriores a lae del rey del Pop Art. Performer en N.Y. en los 60 pulled lrwn the water at 12:35pm Saturday a~emoon,Janwry guide. SMne of this adivity is doaimented in The Paper Snake nunca fu6 entroncado en el grupo Fluxus, ni en el Pop Art, ni en el arte 14. 1995. He was fully clothed- in a typical Wt(it for him- levi's. pubiished by Dick Higgins' Sornething Else Press. He has been geom6tric0, ni en ninguna de las escuelas o movimientos de la Bpoca, ni tan called ?he mOst famws unknown artist in the world." solo en el Mail Art. into the Barron's Cave Inn in Sag Harbor. near Ray lived on Suffolk Streel on the Lower Sus obras han sido expuestas en todo el mundo y es a pesar de ello "El máe - Easl Side until 1968 when ;,e was the end of Long Island. NY. Sag Harbor is famoso artista desconocido del mundom(*). m the north shore d Long Island. about a mugged- around the same time- ii not two hwr drive from his home in Locust the Same day- that his t&nd Andy En la portada de P.O.Box y en la hoja de sellos enviada a P.O.Box por Gerard Valley. a jwmey he appears to have Warhhol was shot by Valerie Barbot de N.Y.aparece el número 13, poema póstumo con el que Ray se despide made in order to do some drawings at Solanas. He decided to leave the de este mundo. El viernes 13 se registra en la habitación 247 (2+4+7) de un the estate of Jadcson Pollock and Lee city and his friends artist Richard hotel un hombre de 67 (6t7) aflos, a la mafiana siguiente a las 7:15 (7+1+5) Krasner. Lippold and collector Arturo desaparece para siempre. .. . . +.< Schwartz reportedly were The weather was unusually rnild lor instrumental in his moving to El material que aparece reproducido en este número consta de reproducción de this time ol year. Ray was locid nl the ?he Pink c!cu~se'm ?!h S!reet in diarios y notas enviadas por Gerard Barbot y parte del archivo de la corres- water. He often took walks along the Locust Valley, from which he pondencia que hemoe mantenido con Ray Johnson hace dos aflos. shore at Oyster Bay near his home. He never moved. He worked there. almost hermit-like with the excep de este texto está traducido de la nota de Mark Blok (Enerof95), was also prone to walking out on piers (*) Parte and d&s. There were several near the 01 01 his voracious appetite tor reproducido en estas páginas. area where he was fwnd on Saturday He calls and correspondence, mys- told me on the phone recently 'l'm going to do and prolifically for over 25 years. my exercises: that he was 'worl«ng on a washboard stmach" by doing 'mwing exercises on the beach with danypeople wanted 10 show his work but he pref- rocks. knd that he wwld Wlkwith rocks" as weights and that ered his quiet admiration of the sage Lao Tse. His lart rnajor show was at the Nassau County Museum oí Ari in the mid- he was "feling very ft.". ._ . .; d.,,. ; , ol ,. . . .\S = eightíes and a gallery show in the 90's in Philadelphia his "A Ray turnad 67 yean o¡d on the 16th of October. He was going Book Abwt Modern Art. A catalogue raissonne' was in the strong, remarkably lit for a man of that age. He ate no meat. works. He had recently done me of his informal non-pedor- didn't drink. smoke or partake of recreafionaldrugs. He worked mances which he called "nothings" at a gallery in Long Island. from morning vntil night. onen with 1% i+vision on in the back- He told me in meof our las1 phone calls. "Will you come to my ground. As usual. he was still makindup new incarnations ol his show at Sandra Genng in Javary? I'm doing a half a nothing. CorresponDANCE School. the latest one I had heard of being Ican't decide whether to do it in the first han or the second half." the "Taoist Pop Art School.' He had taken up photography in recen1 years and took daily walks, where he would make phe Many of us who know ea& other in me art world and its fringes tos. I also noticed that only weeks ago he had linally retired the have lhal pleasure because ol Ray Johnson. As the exlent of rubber starnp with his return addressbn it ttiat he,had used lor his influence on 20th century art and "leners" continues to be years in favor of a new one. l had rneanl to ask him about that. uncwered. we will surely miss Ray Johnson. the rnan In spite of his Taoist fondness ol nothing. Ray was really sornething. Born in 1927 in Detroit Michigan. Ray Johnson's first experi- onces using the rnail as a rnediurn for art have been docu- mented as early as 1943 in a correspondence with his fnend -Mark Bloch Arlhur Secunda In Ihe late 40s he anended the experimental Black Mountain Coliege ~n North Carolina where he studied January 15. 1995 wilh Joseph Albers and Buckrniniste, Fuller among others He PO Box 1500 NY NY 10009 USA [email protected] RAY JOHNSON 1927- 1995 WyaTIME MgW 4uwbV FaQ.u&q Ihfi44 3 II . [email protected]$ ISLAI~

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- PAN CLUB At 8% to. nighi, th* Pil- Pi-o Fin Club mcttr. Pmhably thi firrt Iiins Y ave hu me iitherin~fm, it the Ronlld Fcldmui Glllny.. 33 bt 74th Street (24b40W) will Indicite how many idhmri of the utisl'r daughtcr ihere are. ind miybb even why. Ths sesalon ia Uie inspira- tion ol Riy Johnson. the m. In who ir ihe m.iiupr4ng Of tho NHV YO* Corre. sponduice Schod. Thqh Lhis. he ia in tcucb by mil conrbntly wlth resen1 hun- árcd Iilends throu h kttcrs poem cartoonr ooe.gts uid whitiara- w. )Not tm lag igo ha Xd .a o~ern~~ m&* of AUM kfai woq fmr Whit hippuu it ths fa meetlnpt Hard Lo ay. Mr. Johnron riya it di Qpnd. upoa ths iudienos ud ~iat tha Idea k connaunimüen thmu h wdr vnl imigcr. IP* % inppninr on ~pril Fwl'r Diy. iday. whid should make for i touch oi giddinss dura thc pm- feedlngs. 11'1 i sirull giUuy. so be, prepnred fm i ausb . , ,' r 1 . 4 . .. .. RlCHARD F. SHEPARD

BIBLIOGRAFIA

-Johnson, Ray. The Paper Snake-New York, New York: Something Else Press, 1965. -Wilson, Willian S."Ray Johnson: Letters of Referencel'.Ray Johnson-Ray Johnson.New York, New York: Betwenn Books Pres, 1977. -Wilson, Willian S."Ray Johns0n:Vibration and ReverberationW.Ray Johnson-Ray Johnson-New York, New York: Betwenn Books Pres, 1977. -Wilson, Willian S."Reference and RelationW.Ray Johnson-Ray Johnson.New York, New York: Betwenn Books Pres, 1977. -Wilson, Willian S. Ray Johnson- John Willenbecher..New York, New York: Betwenn Books Pres, 1977. -Andreae, Christopher. "Happy Membership". Ray Johnson - John Willenbecher..Willian S. Wilson, Ed.New York, New York: Betwenn Books 1977. -Alloway, Laurence. "Ray Johnson". Art Journal, 36(3): 235-6, Spring 1977 -Brunelle, Al. "Ray Johnson". Arts News, 67(2): 14, April 1968. -Ffrench-frazier, Nina. "Ray Johnson". Arts, 52(10): 8, June 1978. -Gablik, Suzi. "Ray Johnson". Art Journa1,36(3): 237, Spring, 1977 -Gruen, John. "Ray Johnson" . New York Magazine,3[10): 55, March 9, 1970. -Russell, John. "Ray Johnson" Art Journal, 36(3):236-7, Spring 1977 -Spodarek, Diane, and Delbeke, ~and~."Ray Johnson" Detroit Artists Monthly: 3-9, February 1978. Esta es solamente una parte de la Bibliografía sobre Ray Johnson que John Held Jr.menciona en su libro: Held Jr., John, Mail Art an Annotated Biblio- graphy, Metuchen, N.J.(USA), The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1991.