In 1963, Richard Huelsenbeck had written: “Ralph Ortiz…is fascinated by things that are not or are not yet…when Ortiz wants to show us a mattress, he does not show a mattress but an object that is torn up by indefinable forces as they worked in time. What really plays an important role is the artist’s thought of the man behind the mattress who has to fight his way through the jungle of his existence.”5
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During the course of the symposium, Ortiz performed a series of seven public destruction events, including his piano destruction concerts, which were filmed by both American Broadcasting Company and the BBC.
Raphael | Tito Ortiz | Saint-Raphaël, Var | Sally Jessy Raphael | Gordon Raphael | David Ortiz | Andy Montañez | Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz | Raphael Saadiq | Raphael Pyrasch | Raphael I Bidawid | Raphael Holinshed | Raphaël Bassan | Samson Raphael Hirsch | Saint-Raphaël | Raphael Soyer | Raphael (singer) | Raphaël Géminiani | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Raphael Wallfisch | Raphael Semmes | Raphael Rooms | Raphael Rabello | Raphael Honigstein | Raphael Hillyer | José Ortiz | Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo | Anton Raphael Mengs | Antonio Ortiz Mayans | Rubén Ortiz Torres |