Marcos Kurtycz (21 March 1934, Pielgrzymowice – 13 March 1996, Mexico City) was a performance and graphic artist.
Marcos Kurtycz (21 March 1934, Pielgrzymowice – 13 March 1996, Mexico City) was a performance and graphic artist.
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.[1] 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.[2] His performances and his photographic and print works on paper have influenced Mexico City artists.[1] Kurtycz is known for his use of printing techniques in his graphic artworks.[3] In the 1970s he mobilized his art projects into a challenge to the art establishment, including mail bombs (a series of artworks posted as letters), intended to push art establishment leaders beyond traditional conceptions of what constitutes art.[4] Marcos Kurtycz is the father of graphic artist Anna Kurtycz.
