zaj
Zaj was formed by Walter Marchetti and Juan Hildago with the support of John Cage and was founded in 1964 in Madrid. Zaj was an experimental music and performance group.
The members are:
Jose Luis Castillejo, Ramires Cortes, Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, Tomas Marco and Eugenio de Vicente
Note on the Zaj Group
There is no official history of the Zaj Group. The general spirit of the works with which the group is identified is unhistorical and there is even the question of who actually belongs to the group is never allowed to intrude. Those who once worked with the group are described as "no longer working with us," rather than not Zaj. The word "Zaj" itself is without meaning, except as it becomes identified with the group. For some Zaj manifestations, the word has been spelled in an alternate way-"Zej" or "Zoj" for instance.
Let it suffice to say, by way of historical remarks, that Juan Hidalgo and Walter Marchetti were founders of the group, sometime around 1964 at Madrid. Since that time there have been forty or fifty Zaj manifestations in Madrid and elsewhere that Spain (thus transcending the international, regional difference that have plagued the cultural avant-garde in Spain until now), and even in various other European countries. There are also many Zaj publications, which Something Else Press has undertaken to distribute.
The background of the percipients at first tended to be musical. Both Juan Hidalgo and Walter Marchetti are highly skilled composers and musicians who were well known in Italian musical circles However, in works of the sort which characterize Zaj, the imagery is not necessarily musical at all. For a considerable time, there was musical imagery in most Zaj work, but it came to be increasingly confined to the titles, alluding to well-known musical works, until finally, as Castillejo points out in his excellent description, the first text in the pamphlet, even the allusion disappeared. Castillejo himself is a good example of the non-musical Zaj member. By profession, he is a diplomat, currently the fist Secretary of the Spanish Embassy at Algiers.
Zaj 1
FESTIVAL zaj 1
madrid, noviembre-diciembre 1965
juan hidalgo
tomás marco
josé cortes
manuel cortés
walter marchetti
Price: sold
zaj BIOGRAFIA
1.
MADRID JULIO 1964 JUAN HIDALGO, WALTER MARCHETTI Y RAMÓN BARCHE CREAM
ZAJ
MADRID 19. NOVEIMBRE 1966 INVITACIÓN RETROACTVA AL "TRASLADO A PIE DE TRES OBJETOS"
REALIZADO POR HIDALGO, MARCHETTI Y BARCE...
1965
Size: 28.3 x 22.5 cm
Price: 140, - Euro
ZAJ
FESTVAL zaj 1
madrid, noviembre-diciembre 1965
POGRAMA, 57,6 x 22,4 cm.
Sold
zej
VERANO DE 1966
zej
VIAJE A ARGEL 1966
9,4 x 16,5 cm.
Price: 140,-Euro
das nichtbarocke in der kunst
galerie Block im Forum-thater
9. AbendAlison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Fluxus-concert10. AbendJuan Hidalgo, Tomas Marco, Zaj-concert1966
Price: sold
Walter Marchetti
zaj es como un bar.
1a gente entra, sale, esta;
se tomas una copa y deja una propina
walter marchetti
madrid, 1966
Price: sold
zaj
PF-PARTY CON zaj
1966.
Price: 90,-Euro
zaj
PINTURA
Exposicion por zaj
oono 66
jose luis castillejo
Price: 120,-Euro
juan hidalgo
cuando usted no sepa que decir
un etcetera de
juan hidalgo
Price: 140,-Euro
juan hidalgo ester ferrer walter matchetti
presenta
zaj
en
alcoy
con
juan hidalgo ester ferrer walter marchetti
Price: 160,-Euro
zaj
zaj !AORA COMO NUNCA! zaj
16 de marzo 1967
Price: 120,-Euro
zaj
teatro estudio de madrid
presenta
zaj
en un concierto
Price: 240,- Euro
zaj
zaj y Eugenio de Vicente
Se complacen en parciparte la reciente creation
"LABO 1"
Price: 120,-Euro
Jose Luis Castillejo
Jose Luis Castillejo
A Part from
The Book of Twenty Letters
Price: 140,-Euro
zaj
los 4 libros zaj
c/o
juan hidalgo
batalla del salado, 1
madrid-7
espana
Price: 120,-Euro
zaj
zaj presetq el libro de jose luis castillejo
1967
Price: 120,-Euro
zaj
PF-PARTY CON zaj
1968
Price: 85,-Euro
zaj
SUPLEMENTO AL CALENDARIO UNIVERSAL zaj
1968
Price:sold
CARL ANDRE
ZAJ IS BIGGER THAN LIFE
CARL ANDRE
düsseldorg, 1968
Price: sold
Jiri Valoch
3 texts
to juan hidalgo & all zaj-frieds
jiri valoch
1968
Price: 120,-Euro
zaj
UN
HUEVA
JUAN HIDALGI
PARA
LA PASCUA
zaj
MADRID- APRIL
1968
Price: sold
zaj
zaj
en
BILBAO
juan hidalgo,
ester ferrer
walter marchetti
Price: sold
jose luis castillejo
desnudo zaj
jose luis castillejo
madrid, enero 1968
Price:sold
walter marchetti
zaj desea a todos sus amogos un ano especial de meditacion
1968
con
la observacion hecha por walter marchetti...
Price: 140,-Euro
zaj
zaj
jose luis castllejo
invierno 68-69
Price:180,-Euro
juan hidalgo
zaj
desea a todos sus amigos
un ano especial de meditacion
1969
con
la
"action zaj"
de
juan hidalgo
Price: 180,-Euro
zaj
? cual es el 69 zaj?
una pregunta zaj
juan hidalgo, 1969
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leo zaj
lectura zaj
juan hidalgo
zaj
madirid, 1970
Price 120,-Euro
zaj
69
!cinco anos de zaj !
Jose luis castillejo
inverno 68-69
Price: 180,-Euro
zaj
NOCHE zaj WALTER MARCHETTI MADRID, 1969
Price: 240,-Euro
zaj
Ludwig van Beethoven
desea a todos sus amigos
un ano especial de meditacion
1970
con
la
visits zaj
de
juan hidalgo y walter marchetti
Price: sold
jose luis castillejo
Modern writing
jose luuis castillejo
Bonn 1970
Price: 90,-Euro
walter marchetti
walter marchetti una hora zaj madrid, enero 1970
37 x 35 cm
Price:380,-Euro
Juan Hidalgo
"LA BARROCA ALEGRE"
( THE GRAY BAROQUE)
Two photo of Juan Hidalgo, signed, titeled and numberd, 5/19, 1969,
Sice each 18,2 x 24,1 cm.
Price: 6500,-Euro.
Walter Marchetti
"Interram utopicam"
LP, CAMPS RECORDS, Milano, 1977.
Price: 120,-Euro
zaj, 1964 - 1990, en canarias
A silkscreen on a glass-plate and a book,
21 x 13 x 2,5 cm,
Price: sold
Juan Hidalgo
Juan Hidalgo:"VIAJE A ARGEL"
Para esta 2.edicion, 1992, 594 pages.
Price: 68,-Euro
PREMIOS
CANARIAS
Catalogue, with Juan Hidalgo, 1996, 140 pages.
Price: 24,-Euro
ARTE CANTERAS
Catalogue with Juan Hidalgo, 56 pages, 1998.
Price: 12,-Euro.
ARTE EN CANARIAS
IDENTIDAD COSMOPOLITISMO
Catalogue with Juan Hidalgo, 180 pages.
Price: 28,-Euro
juan hidalgo
UNA VOZ (un etceteral)
LP and a booklet,
Alga Marghen, 01, in a edition of 323 copies, 2001.
Price: 80,-Euro
RADIO de ACTION
"RADIO de ACTION en TORNO a la PERFORMANCE en CANARIAS 1964 - 2000"
With ZAJ and Juan Hidalgo, 2001, 203 pages.
Price: 38,-Euro
juan hidalgo
obra reciente
Un Gran Canaria y Un Gas Mas?
Catalogue, 16 pages, 2003,
Price: sold
"PIELES"
Centro de arte la Regenta, Las Palmes 2003,
90 pages.
Price: 24,-Euro
Espacios y modos
"Espacios y modos, Mas alla de los limites"
With Juan Higalgo, 2003, 180 pages.
Price: 28,-Euro
walter machetti
- walter marchatti
walter marchetti: "musica visible"
centro atlantico de arte moderno, las palmas de gran canaria, 2004,
256 pages with many pictures.
Price: 48,-Euro
PREMIOS CANARIAS
DE BELLAS ARTES
Catalogue with Juan Hidalgo, 2005, 76 pages.
Price: sold
zaj concierto de zeatro musical
Sensxperiment, 2007, 38 pages.
Price: sold
- Juan Hidalgo
JUAN HIDALGO: "jugando con bolas
CENTRO ATLANTICO DE ARTE, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2008.
80 pages.
Price: 28,-Euro
Dialogos
"Dialogos"
With Juan Hidalgo, 2009, 120 pages.
Price 38,-Euro