Alain Arias-Misson
©Courtesy of the artist
° 1936
Né à Brussels (BE), vit à Madrid (ES).
Alain Arias-Misson (°1936, Belgique, vit à Bruxelles, Paris, Venise et Panama City) est influencé par les happenings du début des années 60, quand il revient à Bruxelles en 1968 après avoir séjourné aux États-Unis. Il passe pour l’inventeur du « poème public », un prolongement de la poésie visuelle, qui se distingue toutefois du happening parce qu’il se donne hors de tout contexte artistique ou esthétique : dans la rue ou sur la plage. Les poèmes publics d’Arias-Misson sont à la fois subversifs et libérateurs, provocateurs et ludiques.
Oeuvresfilter for M HKA works
>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.
Expositions & Ensembles
> Exposition: Alain Arias-Misson — Love, a meta-concretist poetic meditation. 18 January 2024 - 25 February 2024.
> Exposition: A NON-U-MENTAL HISTORY OF M HKA – Part 2: What must be heard. 11 September 2021 - 09 January 2022.
> Exposition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exposition: EXTRA MUROS: Spirits of Internationalism. 21 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Exposition: INBOX: The bio-poetics of Alain Arias-Misson. 24 April 2015 - 23 May 2015.
> Exposition: The Collection. 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Exposition: The collection XXVIII – If you shoot a bullet in a vacuum, will it keep travelling forever? (Emily Wardill). 17 June 2011 - 18 September 2011.
> Exposition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exposition: 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.