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Luc Fierens
Collage Anno 2003
- Biografia
- Luc Fierens Born: Mechelen (B), 1961
- He publishes his first poems in 1982 and edits his first creative magazine "Parallel" which became quickly a forum for alternative poetry and art, also when Luc discovers the MAIL-ARTNetwork.
- Since 1984, he is one of the most active Belgian mail-artists / visual poets.
- Since 1993, he works together with his wife & muse Annina Van Sebroeck.
- But he works in different media: collage, visual poetry, Artists'books, rubberstamps, artistamps, object poem installation, sculpture, super 8, performance etc...
- He also organized several Mail-artprojects: one of them : "Homage to Fluxus" has been accepted by the Sonia Henie Museum in Hovikodden (Oslo), Norway.
- About his works:
- most of them are collages & visual poems and sometimes he adds on material from other artists and prints this material as the "POSTFLUXPOSTBOOKLETS ".
- Till now 56 issues have been published. The complete séries of Postfluxpostbooklets has been accepted by major archives (R.&M.Saekner Archive - Miami , Schwitters Archiv -Hannover libraries (MoMa Library Rare Bookscoll.University of Buffalo) museums (Musée Royal de Mariemont) and private collections.
- Luc Fierens: short biography:
- Solo-Exhibitions (artist' publications, mail-artprojects)
- 1996 -Postfluxpostbooklets-E-Maii-artarchives, Centrum voor Kunsten Begijnhof, Hasselt (B)
- 1997 -Living Room Show, Stamp Art Gallery, San Francisco ( U.S.A.)
- 1999 -Postfluxpostbooklets - Barraca Vorticista, Buenos Aires (Arg)
- 1999 - "Social art" - galerij c.de vos, Aalst (B)
- 2002 - "Visual Poetry" - galerij c.de vos - Aalst (B)
- 2004 - Galerie Les Contemporains - lxelles (B)
- Group Exhibitions (mail-art etc . a selection)
- 1984 Inter Dada Mail-artfestival, San Francisco (USA)
- 1987 Int.Artists'Book Exh.-Szent Istvan Kiraly Muzeum-Székesfehérvar (H)
- 1991 donation of the 'Hornage to Fluxus'Mail-arteoli. to tbc SoniaHenieMuscum in Oslo (NO)
- 1992 donation-exíiibition ' Venice/Baííet'Mail-artcoll. Museum van Eysk (Rus)
- 1993 Timbres d'artistes, Musée de la Poste, Paris (F)
- 1994 Medium 3, Trench Art Festival (inel.performance)- SF.Gheorghe (Romania)
- 1997 Faydherbe anders bekeken -Sted. Mus.Hof VanBusleyden (Mechelen) B
- 1998 The Art of the Artist's Book, Oaxaca (Mexieo) lecture about E-mail-art -"In het net verstrikc", KULAK University-Kortrijk (B)
- 1999 A Point of view. Visual poetry-the 90's, An Anthology, edited by D.Bulatov, Kaliningrad (Russia) 1998 with accomp. travelling expo in Russia, Hungary... Target- street performance - Gallery eyevandy - Mechelen (B)
- 2000 World Wild Flags - curators Lino Polegato & Daniël Dutrieux- Liège (B) "The Art is in the Mail(ing) -Wexner Center Columbus (OH) (USA) Exp. Intenat. Poesia Visual - Centre de Arte Moderno Quilmes -Bs. Aires (Arg.)
- 2001 "Dance of life" Maii-artworkshops for children (org. Queen Paola Foundat. & Foyer)(B) "Kunstgaleries in Aalst van '68 tot vandaag" - Sted. Museum Oud Hospitaal, Aalst (B) "extramuros" (object poem installation) C.C. Strombeek-Bever -Brussels (B)
- 2002 "Reactions " - Exit Art - New York - NYC (USA) "Cornucopiae" - De Garage, Ruimte voor Actuele Kunst - Mechelen (B) Free Manifesta - Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt) (D)
- 2003 salon de lecture utopiques - Cneai (Chatou) (F)
- Future:
- I will participate in the Minipressen in Mainz: end may small pressfestival where we hope to sell some cat., postfluxpostbooklets: ..,and G.Di Mauro & E.Morandi asked me to participate in a performancefestival in Venezia,Italy. A project in collaboration with the VeniceBiennal.
- Address: Galgenberg 18 B 1982 Weerde Belgium
- E-mail: fierens.mailart@belgacom.net
- Web site: www.vansebroeck.be
- Links:
- www.milkmag.org/lucfriens.htm
- www.wordforword.info/vol3/index.htm
- www.the-hold.com/library/basinskinovember2002.html
- www.guzzardi.it/arte/archiviomailart/artistimailart/fierens.html
Progetto "Artisti in Cornice"
Archivio - P.C.A. Mail-Artcollection Exists from 1982 till now"
