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JULIEN BLAINE - Rognac (Marseille) 1942    

Artist and poet eclectic and experimenter, Blaine distinguishes himself not only for a rich and various creative production, but also for an inextinguishable activity, even organizing and promotional. As editor he publishes from the first Sixties, five magazines of avant-garde poetry ("Les Carnets de l'Octéor", "Approches", "Robho", "Géranonymo", "Doc(k)s") and he edits four book's garlands ("Zerosscopiz", "Unfinitude", "Les Anthologies de l'An 2000", "Les Anartistes"). Representative of the Mail Art, of the Visual Poetry and of the Sound Poetry, he begins in 1964 with the personal exhibition at the Rinascita Gallery in Modena. Author of some (movies) films from 1967 to 1988 (for example Cycle solaire et cycle du carbone e Simulacre de massacre), he takes part to some others film's works. He writes for many magazines and takes part to frequent collective exhibitions, most of all with the groups "Machines à language" (Biennale of Paris, 1967), "Heza-one" (1968), "Groupe" (1968-69) e and "Logomotives" (1983-92). He publishes many editions dedicated to the sound poetry and to the performance, he organizes some festivals of avant-garde poetry, for example "Festival de Cogolin"(1984-86), and promotes the recording of "audio-art" on records and MC (Polyphonic, 1981). Form the Eighties to the next mid-decade, he takes office the Culture Councillor of Marseille Commune, during which he creates the unique International Centre of Visual Poetry (Centre International de Poésie).

   

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