Marseille Museum of Contemporary Art - Julien Blaine Retrospective
Communication
Communication | Since the 1960s, poet, performer, artist and militant Julien Blaine, has been developing a polymorphous and cross-cutting practice which draws as much from poetry as from the visual arts.
Following in the footsteps of historic avant-garde artists (Mallarmé, Marinetti, Dada and the Surrealists) who took poetry off the pages of literature and proclaimed it to the world, Blaine has catapulted language into visual, sound and physical experiments. Rooted in the history of contemporary, Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry, and reminiscent of the Grupo 63 poets that shone in Italy and opened the way for Arte Povera, he writes and embodies Elementary and action poetry.
Signs, words, calligraphy, deconstructed sentences, books, images, icons, sound, colour, action, gestures, voices, and the body are examples of poetic and plastic materials paving the way for freedom. He has invented a poetic anthropology and an intuitive approach […]
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