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Jean Dupuy (born November 22, 1925) is a French-born artist. He worked with a variety of media and is credited for his innovative work with anagrams combined with conceptual art, performance art painting, installations, sculptures and video art. In the 70's, he became also well-known as a curator and organiser of many performance art events involving different artists from Fluxus, the New York's avant-garde and neo-dada scene. Many of his works works are part of many important collections such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, Musée de Nice and private collectors.

Early life

Works / timeline

Before 1967 Dupuy works as a painter and produced hundred of works. Many of them are still part of many important private collections.
   1967-1968 Dupuy destroy most of its paintings by throwing the woeks in the Seine in Paris.
   He then move to New York City and create «Heart Beats Dust», an installation presented at MOMA and at Brooklyn Museum (first prize in the contest for the exhibition « Art &Technology » curated by Robert Rauschenberg et B. Klüver).
   1971 : FEWA FUEL, installation created with the collaboration of the engineers from Cummins Engine CO
   1973 : Dupuy organise in his loft (405 E 13th St.), his first Group Show
   1976 Become close collaborator of Georges Maciunas. Live and work in Maciunas studio his death.
   1974 : Collective performance by 40 artists : Soup & Tarts at the Kitchen, New York.
   In the mid-70's, Jean dupuy developed series of collective art actions in collaboration with Olga Adorno in « Judson Church », « Artists Space », « P.S One », « Musée du Louvres » and in his Grommet Studio. The works are created around context, machines and/or specific time-frames. Collaborators to this series includes artists such as Nam June Paik, Claes Oldenburg, Charlemagne Palestine, Georges Maciunas, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Jonas, Richard Serra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Filliou, Charles Dreyfus, Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass or Charlotte Moorman.
   1978 : Musée du Louvre 39 artistes,« One Minute Performances », Octobre 16.
   1970's - 2000's : Dupuy created many other collective projects such as :
- Short videos series : « Chant a capella » with Gigliotti, « Artists Propaganda » et « Artists Shorts » with Defess, « La Pub » and « Artists Propaganda # 2 » in studios Beaubourg studios.
   - Analogies, collaborations with different Canadian artists such as Sylvette Babin, Carl Bouchard, Sylvie Cotton, Martin Dufrasne, Massimo Guerrera, Charles Guilbert, André Éric Létourneau and Angéline Neveu.

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