Pierre Garnier
1928 - 2014
Born in Amiens (France), died in Saisseval (France).
Beginning in 1962, the French author and poet Pierre Garnier (b.1928) announces himself as a poet of 'spatialism'. In 1963 in the review Les Lettres, of which he is co-editor, appears his Manifeste pour une poésie nouvelle, visuelle et phonique [Manifesto for a new poetry, visual and phonic]. Garnier sends De Vree a copy with the telling dedication: 'Without the amity of Henri Chopin and in the hope of an active collaboration'. With his 'visual' and 'phonic' poetry, Garnier indeed explicitly positions himself against the 'phonetic' and 'objective' poetry which at that time was being propagated by Chopin in Cinquième Saison. The fact that De Vree in 1965 publishes a composition in Les Lettres and that the following year - together with Ian Hamilton Finlay and the 'accursed' Garnier - is named to the editorial board of Frans Vanderlinde's new Dutch review Vers Univers, will go no way towards improving the relationships. In 1968 Garniers anthology Spatialism et poesie concrète appears by Gallimard.
>Franz Mon, Pierre Garnier, Les Lettres N°31 - poésie nouvelle, 1963.Periodical, ink, paper, 22 x 14 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Les Lettres N°30 - poésie nouvelle, 1963.Periodical, ink, paper, 22 x 14 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Les Lettres N°29 - Manifeste pour une poésie nouvelle, 1963.Periodical, ink, paper, 22 x 14 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Les Lettres N°34 - poésie nouvelle, Revue du Spatialisme, 1964.Periodical, ink, paper, 22 x 14 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Les Lettres N°33 - poésie nouvelle, Revue du Spatialisme, 1964.Periodical, ink, paper, 22 x 14 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Les Lettres N°32 - poésie nouvelle, Revue du Spatialisme, 1964.Periodical, ink, paper, 22 x 14 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Typoscript, 1.10.1966 , 1966.Letter, ink, paper, 27 x 21 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Typoscript, 18.7.1966 , 1966.Letter, ink, paper, 27 x 21 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Les Lettres N°35 - poésie nouvelle, Théâtre Spatialiste, 1966.Periodical, ink, paper, 22 x 14 cm.
>Ian Hamilton Finlay, Frans Vanderlinde, Pierre Garnier, Paul De Vree, Vers Univers 1 , 1966.Periodical, ink, paper, 27.5 x 22 cm.
>Ian Hamilton Finlay, Paul De Vree, Pierre Garnier, Frans Vanderlinde, Luc Peire, Vers Univers 2, 1966.Periodical, ink, paper, 27.5 x 22 cm.
>Frans Vanderlinde, Pierre Garnier, Paul De Vree, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Vers Univers 3, 1966.Periodical, ink, paper, 27.5 x 22 cm.
>Paul De Vree, Frans Vanderlinde, Pierre Garnier, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Vers Univers 4 , 1967.Periodical, ink, paper, 27.5 x 22 cm.
>Ian Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Frans Vanderlinde, Paul De Vree, Vers Univers 5, 1967.Periodical, ink, paper, 27.5 x 22 cm.
>Frans Vanderlinde, Paul De Vree, Pierre Garnier, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Vers Univers 6, 1967.Periodical, ink, paper, 27.5 x 22 cm.
>Pierre Garnier, Spatialisme et poésie concrète, 1968.Book, ink, paper, 21.5 x 14 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: NEONLICHT #5 – Pierre Garnier in the Archive of Paul De Vree. 13 September 2012 - 01 January 2012.
> Ensemble: Les Lettres - poésie nouvelle.
> Ensemble: vers univers.