Julien Blaine

 
Since the early 1960s, Julien Blaine (born 1942 in Rognac, France, lives and works in Marseille) has been developing a semiotic poetry, which can be defined as post-concrete and post-fluxus. Above all, his poetry is a physical experience: a performance.
 
Julien Blaine - Joëlle Léandre versus Julien Blaine
2025
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
forthcoming
A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.
Julien Blaine - 2023
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Julien Blaine - Confidences
2024
French edition
various
Julien Blaine's rebellious confidences, between the political and the poetic.
Julien Blaine - Le motier
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The continuation by all means of an elementary poetry which develops always and still new poetic devices to restore the world.
Julien Blaine - Julien Blaine présente quelques-uns de ses amis Animaux-&-artistes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Through a ready-made exhibition of works made by animals, the poet Julien Blaine offers a vision as comical as it is tragic of the art world, while trying to "establish a communication between the lost world and the contemporary world."
Julien Blaine - 2021
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Julien Blaine - La cinquième feuille - Aux sources de l\'écrire et du dire
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine - 2019
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Julien Blaine - Le grand dépotoir
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
In 2020, Julien Blaine, born in 1942, inventories (and offers) what remains in an artist's studio at the end of a lifetime of creation. Le grand dépotoir brings together essays, letters and reflections on his vast poetic enterprise since its beginnings.
Julien Blaine - Introdⓐction à la performance
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's performance manifesto.
Julien Blaine - Introdⓐction à la performance - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Julien Blaine - Le livre
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).
Julien Blaine - 2017
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Julien Blaine - Lecture de 5 faits d\'actualité par un septuagénaire bien sonné
2016
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
23.00 11.50 €
Religious crimes, Rosetta spacecraft, Hillary Clinton, workers' struggle in France, Calais jungle: a critical commentary of the news by poet Julien Blaine.
Julien Blaine - La poésie à outrance - À propos de la poésie élémentaire de Julien Blaine
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
A critical book: a reassessment of Julien Blaine's poetry and the aesthetic problems related to it.
Julien Blaine - Carnets de voyages - Tome VII
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
25.00 12.50 €
These notebooks recount the scientific-poetic journeys of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language.
Julien Blaine - Concerto pour autotypo, conques et bulles - duo (book / DVD)
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
(last copies available!)
21.00 9.00 €
A book/DVD featuring a performance by Fabrikdelabeslot and Julien Blaine on a text by the latter (Je parle à la machine) in the printing workshops of the École Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence.
Julien Blaine - Bimot
2011
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An ambitious project of minimalist poetry centered on the relationship between two words.
Julien Blaine - Cours minimal sur la poésie contemporaine
2010
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A lesson on contemporary poetry.
Julien Blaine - Le pont du Diable
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Architecture
The confrontation between the radically poetic world of Julien Blaine and the radically technological world of Rudy Ricciotti's Pont du Diable (a footbridge spanning the Hérault gorges in the south of France, both a superb aesthetic gesture and a genuine technological feat).
Julien Blaine - Blaine au MAC - Un tri
2009
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
39.60 19.00 €
This catalogue dedicated to experimental poet Julien Blaine documents the wide variety of his work through his texts, images, installations and performances. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the MAC Marseille, the publication is richly illustrated and documented, and features an interview with Blaine by Laurent Cauwet and Fabienne Létang.
Julien Blaine - Les Cahiers de la 5e feuille - 1er avril 2007
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
27.40 13.50 €
Penultimate volume of notebooks recounting the scientific-poetic journey of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language. Here, he reflects on linguistic works by Jean-Pierre Brisset and Jules Hermann, but most and foremost on Hans W. Bornefeld's research on Cro-Magnon glyphs.
Julien Blaine -
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.
Julien Blaine - Poëmes vulgos
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
39.60 19.00 €
Full-color anthology dedicated to the works of visual poet and performer Julien Blaine.
Julien Blaine - Œuvres de papiers
1987
French edition
various
Brochure/catalogue (24 pages) of an exhibition that took place in 1987, simultaneously in Milan (Mercato del Sale gallery) and Paris (Donguy gallery), presenting the pictorial version of metaphysical poems.
Julien Blaine - 13427 Poëmes métaphysiques
1986
French edition
various
24.00 12.00 €
The first edition of Julien Blaine's "metaphysical poems".


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