Jean Dupuy (November 22, 1925 – April 4, 2021) was a French-born American artist and pioneer of work combining art and technology.[1] He worked in the fields of conceptual art, performance art, painting, installations, sculptures, and video art. In the 1970s he curated many performance art events involving different artists from Fluxus, the New York's avant-garde and neo-dada scene. Many of his works are part of important collections, such as Centre Pompidou in Paris and the MAMAC of Nice.
Works
Dupuy started his career as a painter, but in 1967 he destroyed most of his paintings by throwing them into the Seine. On moving to New York he exhibited his dust sculpture Heart Beats Dust (later renamed Cone Pyramid) at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of the 1968 exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, and at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the 1968 exhibition Some More Beginnings. The work, consisting of red dust set in motion by the viewer's heartbeat, inside a box, and made visible by a beam of light, won a competition arranged by Experiments in Art and Technology for collaborative work between artists and engineers.[2]
In 1978 he invited 40 artists to contribute One Minute Performances in front of different artworks at the Louvre. The event was held on a Sunday, the day of free admission to the museum.[4]
In 2003 he had a solo exhibition at the Emily Harvey Foundation, where he exhibited anagrammatic texts and works made out of found stones.[1]
Dupuy died in April 2021 at the age of 95.[5]
Bibliography
Monographs
2008 - En quatrième vitesse, Texts by Robert Bonaccorsi and Erik Verhagen, Semiose editions, Villa Arson, Villa Tamaris, MAMAC, Nice, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, (ISBN 978-2-915199-36-9).
2008 - À la bonne heure, Texts by Michel Giroud, Eric Mangion and Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Semiose editions, Villa Arson, Villa Tamaris, MAMAC (Nice), FRAC Bourgogne (Dijon), (ISBN 978-2-915199-35-2).
2008 - Rouge et Blanc, Semiose editions, 14 pages, color (ISBN 978-2-915199-39-0).
1997 - Sans titre - Titre : Sans Oeuvres, Francesco Milani, Verona, 65 pages, black & white and color.
1997 - L'art est ci, l'art est là, Francesco Milani, Verona, 65 pages, black & white and color.
1996 - The Stutterer, Edited by Mathieu Dupuy, Honfleur, limited édition of 101 numbered exemplaires, 25 pages, black & white and color, English.
1995 - Seconde vue, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, 25 pages, black & white, (ISBN 2-907672-05-3).
1995 - Oh ! Oh ! Ah ?, Galerie Le Regard Sans Cran d'Arrêt, Dunkerque, Edition of 1000 exemplaries, 38 pages, color.
1994 - Le hasard, c'est moi, J & J Donguy, Paris, 50 pages, color.
1994 - Catalogue raisonnable de quelques oeuvres de Léon Bègue, J & J Donguy, 49 pages, color.
1990 - Un anagrammiste atteint de palilalie, J & J Donguy, Paris, 25 pages, color.
1989 - Léon, Edition Rainer Verlag, Berlin, with the support of Berliner Künstlerprogramm des Daad (German office of university exchanges), 85 pages, color, (ISBN 3-88537-098-0).
1987 - Ypudu anagrammiste, Christian Xatrec publication, New York, 192 pages, black & white and color, (ISBN 0-9619605-0-7).
1981 - Calais pas de calais, Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Calais, 48 pages, black & white.
Collective books
2012 - La Plasticité du Langage - à la Fondation Hippocrène, Beaux-Arts éditions, 50 pages, color, (ISBN 978-2-84278-958-9).
2010 - Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse, Edition le Printemps de Septembre, 159 pages, color, (ISBN 978-2-9533753-2-9).
1980 - Collective Consciousness: Art Performances in the Seventies, written by Jean Dupuy, Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, Edition of 3000 exemplars, 245 pages, black & white, (ISBN 978-0933826274).
1968 - The Machine, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Texts by Karl Gunnar Pontus Hulten, 218 pages, black & white and blue monochrome, English.
1968 - Some More Beginnings, E.A.T., 122 pages, black & white, English.
References
^ a bHeartney, Eleanor (2003). "Jean Dupuy at Emily Harvey". Art in America. 91 (9): 123. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.(subscription required)
^Margot Lovejoy, Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age, Routledge, 2004, p68. ISBN 0-415-30780-5
^"Soup & Tart". Electronic Arts Intermix website. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011.
^Rob Wilson in Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics, University of Minnesota Press, 1994, p278. ISBN 0-8166-2367-8
^L’artiste avant-gardiste Jean Dupuy est mort
External links
Archivio Conz
Galerie Loevenbruck / Jean Dupuy
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain Nice website (French language)
Listening
Le drapeau de George Maciunas, produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Éditions Système Minuit, CD, Montreal (published in 2008)
Public collections
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France Archived 2020-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
MAC, Lyon, France Archived 2013-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
The Barnes Foundation, New York, USA
The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA
The Lannan Foundation, Miami, USA
Universcience / La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France Archived 2013-07-08 at the Wayback Machine