Guy Bleus

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Guy Bleus (1985)

Guy Bleus (born October 23, 1950 in Hasselt ) is a Belgian artist and author .

life and work

Art and archive

Bleus deals with conceptual art ( mail art , visual poetry ) and performance . His work encompasses various areas, including administration (which he calls "art administration"), postal and olfactory communication.

In 1978 he founded “The Administration Center - 42.292”, a large art archive with works and information from 6000 artists from more than 60 countries (2012). "Guy Bleus has one of the best mail art archives in Europe, if not the world."

Bleus was the first artist to systematically use fragrances in the visual arts. Since 1979 he has shown "scent paintings", perfumed objects, and sent aromatic plants. He also held “Spray Performances” in which he sprayed a mist of scent over the audience.

He also used the possibilities of communication media as art with projects such as "Indirect Correspondence" and "Post with Balloons" (1979). Together with the artist Charles François, he first used digital equipment (computer and modem) for artistic communication in 1989. He has also used digital storage media such as microfilm, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM for artistic works.

Network and projects

The international art projects that Bleus has organized are numerous, for example “Are you experienced? LHFS ”(1981),“ Mail Art Atlas ”(1981–83),“ Telegraphie ”(1983),“ Cavellini Festival 1984 ”,“ Art is Books ”(1991),“ Fax Performances ”(1992–1993), "Private Art Detective: Sealed Confessions", and "Building Plan & Schemes" (1993).

He wrote many texts on the subject of net art. About his essay “Exploring Mail Art” (1984) Géza Perneckzy wrote: “The study by Guy Bleus surpasses all publications with theoretical weight and conciseness”. In addition, he worked on many publications such as "Mail Art" by Piotr Rypson, "Eternal Network" by Chuck Welch or "Postkarten - Cartoline d'Artista" by Vittore Baroni. He participated in many artist magazines.

In 1994 he opened the art gallery E-Mail-Art Archiv in Hasselt (until 1999). More than 40 exhibitions of mail art, fax and internet art have taken place in this non-profit art space. The following German artists were exhibited: Jürgen O. Olbrich , Klaus Groh , Géza Perneczky , Peter Küstermann, and Timm Ulrichs . In 1995 he realized the “Artistamps Collection”, the first mail art catalog on CD-ROM. With the participation of artists such as Vittore Baroni, Ken Friedman, John Held Jr., Ruud Janssen, György Galántai, Pawel Petasz and Géza Perneczky, he published the first "E-Mail-Art-Kunst- & Internet-Manifest" in 1997 his electronic magazine ( e-zine ).

After a bureaucratic adventure that lasted over 20 years, in 2003 he (together with Jean Spiroux) realized the very first official postage stamp on the subject of "Mail Art". It was printed by the Belgian Post Service with a circulation of four million.

From 2005 to 2006 Guy Bleus organized the olfactory mail art project “Scents, Locks & Kisses” with 778 artists from 43 countries in the cultural center Z 33. A slide show with all the works of the participating artists is available on the website.

A retrospective of his works took place in the cultural center of Hasselt in 2010. The publication "Pêle-Mêle: Guy Bleus ® - 42.292" had bracts perfumed with lavender essence and included a re-edition of his 1979 identity card from the planet Mars.

literature

  • Henryk Gajewski: Mail Art Handbook. Open University, Amsterdam, 1983.
  • Bernd Löbach-Hinter (Ed.): International artist postage stamps . Design book publishing house, Cremlingen 1985, ISBN 3-923971-09-5 .
  • Klaus Groh, Hermann Havekost: Artists' Books - artist books. Oldenburg 1986, ISBN 3-8142-0152-3 .
  • Piotr Rypson: Mail Art - Czyli Sztuka Poczty. Akademia Ruchu , Warsaw 1985.
  • Chuck Welch: Networking Currents. Sandbar Willow Press, Boston 1986.
  • Fred Truck: Guy Bleus. The Memory Bank, Des Moines University, 1986.
  • HR Fricker : networking material. Design book publishing house, Cremlingen 1986, ISBN 3-923971-11-7 .
  • Günther Ruch (Ed.): Mail Art Congress 86th Out-press, Genève 1987.
  • HR Fricker: I Am A Networker (Sometimes). St. Gallen 1989.
  • Gianni Broi: La posta in gioco. Pres. del consiglio del ministri, Florence 1990.
  • John Held: Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography. (Foreword by Guy Bleus), Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ 1991.
  • Piotr Rypson: Mail Art - Czyli Sztuka Poczty. National Museum, Warsaw 1991.
  • Jean-Noël László: Timbres d'artistes. Musée de la Poste, Paris 1993.
  • Géza Perneczky: The Magazine Network. Soft Geometry, Cologne 1993.
  • Peter Meyer: Mailed Art in Uppsala. Upsala 1994.
  • Klaus Urbons: Electrography. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1994.
  • Friedrich Winnes , Lutz Wohlrab (ed.): Mail Art Szene DDR 1975 to 1990 . Haude & Spener, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7759-0390-9 .
  • Chuck Welch: Eternal Network: A Mail-Art Anthology. University of Calgary Press, Alberta 1994.
  • Nathalie Hamard-Wang: Mail art networking, entre communication et esthétique. Université de Paris 1996.
  • Vittore Baroni: Archivi - Guy Bleus. In: Arte Postale: Guida al network della corrispondenza creativa. Bertiolo 1997.
  • Julien Blaine: Les Ambassadeurs. VAC, Ventabren art contemporain, Editions Nèpe, 1997.
  • Géza Perneczky: Network Atlas: Works and Publications by the People of the First Network. Soft Geometry, Cologne 1997.
  • Dmitry Bulatov: A Point of View. Visual Poetry: The 90s. An Anthology. Ed. Simplicii, Kaliningrad 1998.
  • John Held: L'Arte del Timbro - Rubber Stamp Art. AAA Edizioni, Bertiolo 1999.
  • Bernd Löbach-Hinter : Artists 'Banknotes: Artists' Banknote Works . Design book publishing house, Cremlingen 2000, ISBN 3-923971-59-1 .
  • James, W. Felter: Artistamps - francobolli d'Artista. AAA Edizioni, Bertiolo, 2000.
  • Florent Bex (ed.): Art in België na 1975. Mercatorfonds, Antwerp 2001.
  • Craig J. Saper: Networked Art. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
  • Renaud Siegman: Mail Art, Art postal - Art posté. Éditions Alternatives, Paris 2002.
  • Géza Perneczky: Correspondence Works & Labels. Soft Geometry, Cologne 2003.
  • J. Blaine: Mail-Art 2003. VAC, Ventabren art contemporain, 2003.
  • Madelyn Kim Starbuck: Clashing and Converging: Effects of the Internet on the Correspondence Art Network. University of Texas, Austin 2003.
  • A. Chandler, N. Neumark (Eds.). At a distance: precursors to art and activism on the Internet. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005.
  • Kornelia Röder: Topology and functioning of the network of the Mail Art. Salon Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89770-280-6 .
  • Vittorio Baccelli: Arte Postale Mail art. Tesseratto Editore, Seville 2009.
  • Willem Elias: Guy Bleus - Contemplation of a million. In: De kunst van het spel. Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Mercatorfonds, Brussels 2009.
  • Franziska Dittert: Mail Art in the GDR: An Inter-Media Subculture in the Context of the Avant-Garde. Logos Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8325-2618-4 .
  • Niels Peter Lomholt, Lene Aagaard Denhart: Lomholt Mail Art Archive. Form Press, Denmark 2010.
  • Graciela Gutiérrez Marx: Arte correo: artistas invisibles en la red postal 1975–1995. Buenos Aires, Luna Verde 2010.
  • Pere Sousa (Merzmail): Mail Art - La Red Eterna - PO Box. LUPI, Sestao, Barcelona 2011.
  • John Held: Where the Secret is Hidden: Collected Essays, 1979–2011 - Part 1. Bananafish Publications, Sacramento / San Francisco, CA 2011.
  • John Held: Where the Secret is Hidden: Collected Essays, 1979–2011 - Part 2. Bananafish Publications, Sacramento / San Francisco, CA 2011.
  • Dan Holsbeek: Guy Bleus. In: Landscape of Images. ed.Eurlings, Ellen et al., Hasselt 2012, ISBN 978-90-74605-55-7 .
  • Bruno Chiarlone Debenedetti: Art through Postal Service. Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso SpA, ilmiolibri, Roma 2013.
  • György Galántai, Júlia Klaniczay (Ed.): Artpool: The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe. Budapest 2013, ISBN 978-963-08-7225-6 .
  • Thomas Crombez: Arm theater in een gouden tijd. Ritual en avant-garde na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Lannoo, Löwen 2014, ISBN 978-94-014-1711-2 .
  • Renaat Ramon: Vorm & Visie. Geschiedenis van de Concrete en Visuele Poëzie in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Poëziecentrum, Gent 2014, ISBN 978-90-5655-085-1 .
  • John Held: Small Scale Subversion: Mail Art & Artistamps. TAM Publications, Breda 2015, ISBN 978-1-329-05805-7 .
  • Sarenco, Benetton L., De Vree J. Visual Poetry in Europe , imago mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Antiga Edizioni, 2016.
  • Cook, S. (ed.), Information , Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, The MIT Press, 2016.
  • Pas, J. Artists' Publications: The Belgian Contribution , Koenig Books, London, 2017.
  • Vuegen, Ch.Artministrator Guy Bleus in CIAP, Hasselt , in: H Art magazine # 178, 22/02/2018.
  • Rota, A. Mail Art: l'eternal network dell'arte postale , Unversità Ca'Foscari Venezia, 2018.

Publications Guy Bleus

  • Subterranean II Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent 1970.
  • Het Spiegelbeeld. Tongerse Kunstkring, Tongeren 1974.
  • Subterranean II. Tongerse Kunstkring, Tongeren 1975.
  • Are You Experienced: LHFS VUB, University, Brussels 1981.
  • Mail-eARTh. De Warande, Turnhout 1981.
  • Mail type: Initiation. Art gallery Ciap, Hasselt, 1983.
  • Administration: Telegraphy and Mail Art Project. Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt 1983.
  • Man is The Museum of All Things. Esmeralda, Gent 1983.
  • WAA: World Art Atlas. De Warande, Turnhout 1983.
  • B: 13 - Bambú 13. TAC-42.292, waves 1984 (1992).
  • BTS - Commonpress 56. Het Toreke, Tienen 1984.
  • 20x communication. SHIVKV, Genk 1986.
  • Audio Art: Screams (Against Bureaucracy). Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt 1989.
  • Art is Books: artist books. PCOB, Hasselt 1990.
  • Mail-Art Manual Do Viajante em Portugal. Cultuurcentrum, Heusden-Zolder 1991.
  • Fax performances. CC Heusden-Zolder 1992.
  • A Networking Fax Project & Performance. De Fabriek, Eindhoven 1993.
  • Building Plans & Schemes. CC Heusden-Zolder 1993.
  • The Timeless Calendar. Vaes & Il Ventuno, Neerpelt, Hasselt 1993.
  • E-Pêle-Mêle: Electronic Mail Art Netzine. TAC-42,292, Hasselt 1994-1998.
  • Mail Art. PCBK & TAC-42.292, Hasselt 1994.
  • In a memory of Ray Johnson. TAC-42.292, Hasselt 1995.
  • Mail-art memorabilia. Post Museum, Brussels 1995.
  • The Artistamp Collection. Centrum voor Kunsten, Hasselt 1995.
  • Sealed Confessions: Private Art Detective. CC Heusden-Zolder 1996.
  • Re: The Email Art & Internet Art Manifesto. TAC-42.292, Hasselt 1997.
  • Re: The E-Mail-Art & Internet-Art Manifesto - Part I. TAC-42.292, Hasselt 1998.
  • Working in A Coal Mine: Fax & Internet Art Project. Our House, Genk 1997.
  • Re: The E-Mail-Art & Internet-Art Manifesto - Part II.TAC-42.292, Hasselt 1998.
  • Artist books. Literair Museum, Hasselt 1998.

CD-ROM and DVD-ROM

  • The Artistamp Collection: with an X. E-Mail-Art Archives, Hasselt 1996.
  • The Artistamp Collection: without an X. E-Mail-Art Archives, Hasselt 1996.
  • Eutopia. Governorate, Maastricht 1997.
  • Desks: 1001 offices. Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen 1998.
  • 1899 GeZeLLe 1999. Visual poetry, City of Bruges 1999.
  • Artbiorix. De Velinx, Tongeren 2000.
  • S: L: K - Olfactory Mail Art project. Z33, 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Van den Bossche : The "System" - Guy Bleus as a critic of technical thinking. In: Pêle-Mêle: Guy Bleus ® - 42.292. Hasselt, 2010.
  2. ^ John Held, Jr .: Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen 1991.
  3. ↑ Ivan Hermans: Guy Bleus. In: High Performance. Issue 22, Volume 6, No. 2, 1983.
  4. ^ John Held, Jr .: Mail Art Shows: 1970–1985. Dallas 1986.
  5. ↑ defabriekeindhoven.nl Guy Bleus: Fax Art Project & Performance. De Fabriek, Eindhoven 1993.
  6. ↑ oberlin.edu ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arteventuno.com (PDF file; 62 kB) Biography Guy Bleus  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberlin.edu
  7. ↑ Géza Perneczky: artist stamps. In: Stamp Pictures. Budapest 1987.
  8. ^ Géza Perneczky: The Magazine Network. Soft Geometry, Cologne 1993.
  9. ↑ Pêle-Mêle. 'Guy Bleus' - 42.292, ed.R. Geladé, N. Coninx & F. Bleus, Cultuurcentrum, Hasselt, 2010, p. 128.
  10. ↑ Bleus, Guy. The Artistamp Collection 1995–1996 artpool.hu worldcat.org
  11. ↑ Bleus, Guy. E-Pêle-Mêle: E-Mail type Netzine. Vol. III, No. 1, 1997.
  12. ↑ bpost.be ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Belgian Postal Service - Journée du Timbre: Mail-Art, 2003.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bpost.be
  13. ↑ Z33 ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.z33.be
  14. ↑ Scents: Locks: Kisses
  15. ↑ CCHa ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ccha.be

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personal data
SURNAME Bleus, guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasselt (Belgium)