Alain Arias-Misson
©Courtesy of the artist
° 1936
Born in Brussels (BE), lives in Madrid (ES).
Alain Arias-Misson (1936, Belgium, lives in Madrid) is influenced by the happenings of the early 1960s when he returns to Brussels from the US in 1968. He is seen as the inventor of the public poem, an extension of visual poetry but distinct from the happening in that it is performed outside of any artistic or aesthetic context: in the streets or on the beach. Arias-Misson’s public poems are both subversive and liberating, both provocative and playful.
>Alain Arias-Misson, Vietnam Public Poem, Brussels, 1967, 1967-2011.Mixed Media, 36 x 70.5 x 2.5 cm.
>Alain Arias-Misson, The G D Public Poem, Brussels, 1968, 1968-2011.Mixed Media, 2 x ( 32 x 110 cm ).
>Alain Arias-Misson, Poemx, the Baptismal Public Poem, Knokke, 1970, 1970-2011.Mixed Media, 2 x ( 32 x 110 cm ).
>Alain Arias-Misson, Chomsky Generative Grammar Public Poem, Brussels 1972, 1972-2011.Mixed Media, 3 x ( 32 x 110 cm ).
>Alain Arias-Misson, Birdsong, 1973.Mixed Media, plexi, 34 x 41 x 15.5 cm.
>Alain Arias-Misson, Confessions of a Murderer, Rapist, Fascist, Bomber, Thief (or a year in the journal of an ordinary American), 1974.Book, ink, paper, 28.5 x 22 cm, 116 p, language: English, Publisher: Chicago Review press, Chicago, ILL (USA). ISBN 0-914090-05-4.
>Alain Arias-Misson, The Congress of the Birds, 1979.Sculpture, wood, plexi, letraset, 43.5 x 43.5 x 7 cm.
>Alain Arias-Misson, The Mind Crime of August Saint, 1993.Book, ink, paper, 21.6 x 14 cm, 420 p, language: English, publisher : Fiction Collective Two, Boulder, Colorado (USA). ISBN 0-932511-79-1.
>Alain Arias-Misson, Theatre of Incest, 2007.Book, ink, paper, 17.7 x 12.7 cm, 131 p, language: English, publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign/London. ISBN 9781564784810.
>Alain Arias-Misson, Comic Book, 2015.Book, ink, paper, 19.6 x 12.4 cm, 164 p., language : English, publisher : Black Scat Books, San Francisco, ISBN : 978-0-692-44067-4 .
>Alain Arias-Misson, Autobiography of a Character from Fiction, 2016.Artist Novel, ink, paper, 19.8 x 12.8 cm, 206 p., language : English, publisher : Black Scat Books, San Francisco, CA, ISBN : 978-0-997-77712-3.
>Alain Arias-Misson, The Detective Who Didn't Have a Clue, 2017.Artist Novel, ink, paper, 19.8 x 12.8 cm, 165 p., language : English, publisher : Black Scat Books, San Francisco, CA, ISBN : 9780997777192.
>Alain Arias-Misson, My Other Selves, 2017.Sculpture.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Alain Arias-Misson — Love, a meta-concretist poetic meditation. 18 January 2024 - 25 February 2024.
> Exhibition: A NON-U-MENTAL HISTORY OF M HKA – Part 2: What must be heard. 11 September 2021 - 09 January 2022.
> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Spirits of Internationalism. 21 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Exhibition: INBOX: The bio-poetics of Alain Arias-Misson. 24 April 2015 - 23 May 2015.
> Exhibition: The Collection. 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVIII – If you shoot a bullet in a vacuum, will it keep travelling forever? (Emily Wardill). 17 June 2011 - 18 September 2011.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2015 [Acquisitions 2015].
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.