Jean Dupuy (November 22, 1925 – April 4, 2021) was a French-born American artist and pioneer of work combining art and technology. He worked in the fields of conceptual art,

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, installations,

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, and

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. In the 1970s he curated many

events involving different artists from

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, the New York's avant-garde and

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scene. Many of his works are part of important collections, such as

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

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

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. On moving to

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he exhibited his dust sculpture ''Heart Beats Dust'' (later renamed ''Cone Pyramid'') at the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

, as part of the 1968 exhibition ''The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age'', and at the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heig ...

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 Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a non-profit and tax-exempt organization, was established in 1967 to develop collaborations between artists and engineers. The group operated by facilitating person-to-person contacts between artists and ...

for collaborative work between artists and engineers. His 1970 work ''FEWAFUEL'' was made in collaboration with engineers at

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and exhibited in the ''Art & Technology'' show at the

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in 1971. In 1974 he organised the ''Soup & Tart'' performance event, at The Kitchen, in New York, which included contributions from

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and

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. From 1976 he worked in close collaboration with

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. His works for

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, P.S.1 and the

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were created in collaboration with artists such as

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, and

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. In 1978 he invited 40 artists to contribute ''One Minute Performances'' in front of different artworks at the

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. The event was held on a Sunday, the day of free admission to the museum. In 2003 he had a solo exhibition at the Emily Harvey Foundation, where he exhibited anagrammatic texts and works made out of found stones. Dupuy died in April 2021 at the age of 95.L’artiste avant-gardiste Jean Dupuy est mort
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Bibliography

Monographs

*2008 - ''En quatrième vitesse'', Texts by Robert Bonaccorsi and Erik Verhagen, Semiose editions, Villa Arson, Villa Tamaris, MAMAC, Nice, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, (). *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), (). *2008 - ''Rouge et Blanc'', Semiose editions, 14 pages, color (). *2008 - ''Sédimentations'', FRAC Bourgogne Edition, color, (). *2008 - ''Itératio'', FRAC Bourgogne Edition, 64 pages, color, (). *2006 - ''Les Tons de son cru'', Co-edition FRAC Bourgogne & Ministère de la Culture, 700 exemplaries, 64 pages, color, (). *2006 - ''Un ton de mon cru'', Semiose editions, 82 pages, color, (). *2003 - ''Anagram bookshop'', Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, 48 pages, color, English. *2002 - ''Pierres'', Co-edition FRAC Bourgogne & Ministère de la Culture, 1000 exemplaries, 45 pages, color, (). *2002 - ''Mimi Lulu (Anagrammaire 2)'', Edition FRAC Bourgogne, 24 pages, color, (). *2002 - ''Chez Olgadorno à Puerto Rico'', Edition FRAC Bourgogne, 24 pages, color, (). *2000 - ''Sans queue ni tête'', Galerie Commune, Tourcoing, 56 pages, color, French/English, (). *1999 - ''Jean Dupuy chez Conz'', Edition FRAC Bourgogne, 80 pages, black & white and color, French/English. *1997 - ''Anagrammaire'', Edition A bruit secret, Dunkerque, 58 pages, color. *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, (). *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, (). *1987 - ''Ypudu anagrammiste'', Christian Xatrec publication, New York, 192 pages, black & white and color, (). *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, (). *2010 - ''Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse'', Edition le Printemps de Septembre, 159 pages, color, (). *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, (). *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

Listening

''Le drapeau de George Maciunas'', produced for the

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, 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

* ttp://www.frac-bourgogne.org/recherche/?q=DUPUY,%20FR Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
MAC, Lyon, France

The Barnes Foundation, New York, USA

The Lannan Foundation, Miami, USA

Universcience / La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France

External links

Archivio Conz

Galerie Loevenbruck / Jean Dupuy

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