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.

Juan Hidalgo

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

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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

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

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.

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ARTE EN CANARIAS

IDENTIDAD COSMOPOLITISMO

Catalogue with Juan Hidalgo, 180 pages.

Price: 28,-Euro

zaj

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

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 marchtti
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

Canarias

PREMIOS CANARIAS

DE BELLAS ARTES

Catalogue with Juan Hidalgo, 2005, 76 pages.

Price: sold

zaj

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