François Dufrêne
François Dufrêne (born September 21, 1930 in Paris , † December 12, 1982 ibid) was a French artist , representative of Lettrism , founder of poésie sonore and co-founder of Nouveau Réalisme in the 1960s.
life and work
Dufrêne's work cannot be assigned to any artistic medium. Like many of his contemporaries, he broke the conventional concept of artist: he was a painter , object artist , essayist , poet and singer.
As an experimental poet , Dufrêne developed the "poésie sonore" within sound poetry from 1953 and was able to do theoretical preparatory work for Henri Chopin , Carlfriedrich Claus , Bob Cobbing , Maurice Lemaître , Franz Mon , Josef Anton Riedl and Gerhard Rühm .
As a painter, he co-founded the artist group Nouveau Réalisme in Paris in 1960, which was inspired by the critic and theoretician Pierre Restany . The founding declaration of the New Realists was signed by Arman , François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains , Yves Klein , Martial Raysse , Daniel Spoerri , Jean Tinguely and Jacques de la Villeglé , while César , Mimmo Rotella , Niki de Saint Phalle , Gérard Deschamps and Christo later joined the movement connected.
Dufrêne's pictorial work consists of panel paintings on which he uses a dé-coll / age technique to depict the backs of billboards , while colleagues such as Raymond Hains and Mimmo Rotella turned to the visible front. Like the other members of the group, Dufrêne tried to use this technique to integrate the reality of everyday life into his art. He made a significant contribution to the development of object art and the early forms of action art .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1987: Documenta 8 , Kassel
- 2000: Sprengel Museum , Hanover, From Kurt Schwitters to today
- 2003: Municipal Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach, poster tear-off
- 2004: Westfälisches Landesmuseum , Münster, Cramers collection
- 2005: Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation - MUMOK, Vienna, Nouveau Réalisme
- in the permanent exhibition: Center Pompidou , Paris
- 2015: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , poetry of the big city. The Affichists
Works in public collections (selection)
- Center Pompidou, Paris
- Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
- Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice , Nice.
literature
- Michael Lentz : Sound poetry / music after 1945 . edition selene, Vienna 2000
- Dufrene, Hains, Rotella, Villegle, Vostell: Poster demolitions from the Cremer Collection , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 1971
- Benjamin Buchloh u. a .: Hains, Villegle, Dufrene, Rotella, Decollage: les affichistes , Zabriskie, New York 1990
- Opus International. N ° 40-41. poesie en question , Editions Georges Fall, Paris, 1973.
- TPL , François Dufrêne, Alain Jouffroy, Wolf Vostell , Verlag Der Kalender, Wuppertal 1961.
- Big city poetry. The Affichists . Bernard Blistène, Fritz Emslander, Esther Schlicht, Didier Semin, Dominique Stella. Snoeck, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-9523990-8-8
Web links
- Website François Dufrêne - poète et artiste plasticien (French)
- François Dufrêne on kunstaspekte.de
- François Dufrêne at artfacts.net
- About Dufrêne in the FAZ, February 25, 2006 (exhibition at Reckermann, Cologne, 2006). FAZ , February 27, 2006, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
- Dufrêne as part of the exhibition Poetry of the Big City. The Affichists in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dufrêne, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French artist of the Nouveau Réalisme |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1982 |
| Place of death | Paris |