OM.2023.014 - Luc Fierens - Belgium
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Luc Fierens (b. 1961) describes himself as a networked collagist and visual poet-provocateur. His work emerged out of the Poesia Visiva, Mail Art and Fluxus movements. He embarked at an early age to unite image and word, to tell new stories. He found his inspiration in Brussels art life as a student visiting an exhibition on Surrealism and discovering the Cadavre Exquis. At the end of the eighties, Fierens became increasingly focused on the Poesia Vivisa movement.
Luc Fierens developed a collage style entirely his own in the years that followed. That style focuses on the paradox between word and image, interested in deconstructing the linguistic constructions in advertising, among others, and seeking to subject mass communication to critical analysis.
Starting in the early 1990s, Fierens met all kinds of Mail-artists through his work and travels, such as John Held Jr, Shozo Shimamoto, Serge Segay, and the Italian Poesia Visiva artists. His collaborations and contacts with the latter are how, as of the nineties, Luc Fierens’ work came to be frequently published in Italian and International anthologies, such as Visual Poetry (Skira Editore, Milan, 2014) and Last Vispo (Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 2012) and he had a major retrospective of his work in 2019, at Fondazione Berardelli in Brescia, Italy.
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