Jean Dupuy
Illustration — Jean Dupuy 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, 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.
Jean Dupuy

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- Full name
- Jean Ernest Martin Dupuy.
- Born
- Jean Dupuy was born on 22 November 1925. · Moulins.
- Died
- Jean Dupuy died on 4 April 2021. · Nice.
- Nationality
- France · United States
- Occupation
- artist · painter · television producer · sculptor
- Movements
- Fluxus
- Known for
- Xena Blanc
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Jean Dupuy 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, 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.
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Works
Many of his works are part of important collections, such as Centre Pompidou in Paris and the MAMAC of Nice.
The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are Xena Blanc. Work by Jean Dupuy is recorded in the collections of Design Museum Gent, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Whitney Museum of American Art.
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. His 1970 work FEWAFUEL was made in collaboration with engineers at Cummins and exhibited in the Art & Technology show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971. In 1974 he organised the Soup & Tart performance event, at The Kitchen, in New York, which included contributions from Philip Glass, Gordon Matta-Clark, Joan Jonas, Richard Serra and Yvonne Rainer. From 1976 he worked in close collaboration with George Maciunas. His works for Judson Church, Artists Space, P.S.1 and the Musée du Louvre were created in collaboration with artists such as Nam June Paik, Claes Oldenburg, Charlemagne Palestine, George Maciunas, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Jonas, Richard Serra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Filliou, Jacques Monory, Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, and Charlotte Moorman. In 1978 he invited 40 artists to contribute One Minute Performances in front of different artworks at the Louvre. 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.
Monographs
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.
Listening
Listening
Le drapeau de George Maciunas, produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Éditions Système Minuit, CD, Montreal (published in 2008)
Identity
Identity
Jean Dupuy is recorded with the occupation performance artist. Recorded as artist, painter, television producer and sculptor. Established in Library of Congress under no2006117983. Recorded at birth as Jean Ernest Martin Dupuy. Established in RKDartists under 24982. Established in FAST under 1659207. Recognition and collections.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1925
Jean Dupuy was born on 22 November 1925.
2021
Jean Dupuy died on 4 April 2021.
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Moulins.
Birth place
Nice.
Death place
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.
Public collections
Public collections
• Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France • Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France • Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France • Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France • MAC, Lyon, France • 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
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Dupuy, Jean Albéric, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
- Dupuy, Jean Louis, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
- Dupuy, Jean, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3171880: Jean Dupuy
General reference · Wikimedia Foundation
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- 1.Heartney, Eleanor. Jean Dupuy at Emily Harvey. Art in America. 91. 9. 123. 2003.
- 2.Margot Lovejoy, Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age, Routledge, 2004, p68.
- 3.Electronic Arts Intermix website. Soup & Tart.
- 4.L’artiste avant-gardiste Jean Dupuy est mort
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scholarly publication
Dupuy, Jean Albéric, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
Institutional witnessscholarly publication
Dupuy, Jean Louis, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
Institutional witnessscholarly publication
Dupuy, Jean, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
Institutional witnessinstitutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q3171880: Jean DupuyWikimedia Foundation
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Jean Dupuy was born on 22 November 1925.
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