About

Fifty years ago Marcos Kurtycz (Poland, 1934 – Mexico, 1996) arrived at Mexico City, where he changed his engineering career for an artistic practice based on conceptualism, from which he became one of the fundamental precursors of action art and of the incorporation of the body as an artistic tool, with the quality of significant location. In the Mexican environment of the moment it was unusual to take those stances, which led Kurtycz to develop not only his own path within art as an idea but to provide it with an active meaning that would affect the totality of his experimental pursuits.

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