Pierre Garnier (1928-2014) and Ilse Garnier (born 1927 in Kaiserslautern, Deutschland) are the founders of
spatialism, a poetic movement which finds its roots in the works of pioneers Mallarmé, Cummings, and Pound… Founded in the 1950s, spatial poetry was connected to the
concrete poetry international movement. The Garniers developed many contacts and projects with concrete poets from all over the world, thus partaking in one of the greatest poetic “Internationale” of the twentieth century.
