Un espacio hecho de espacios tras espacios

Texts — 2021

José-Miguel Ullán’s writing, which has been extensively analyzed and discussed, has often been noted for the difficulty of pigeonholing it into currents, trends, literary groups, and other commonly used classificatory contexts. José-Miguel Ullán, in fact, did not write only “literary” poetry. Is the same true of his visual poetry, or of the books he collaborated on with visual artists? Can we also speak, in these areas, of a creative practice that “deviates” from the established formal paradigms in both genres? To elucidate this question in relation to artist’s books, this essay (in Spanish) set out to analyze his series of “books with painters” entitled Funeral mal, which Ullán co-authored with successive artists, against the backdrop set by the conventions of the artist’s book, a creative genre that, although relatively modern, has well-defined genealogies.