THE OUTSIDERS GALLERY
APRIL 5, 2025, noon to 6pm
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WHAT'S YOUR TYPE?
art-poetry-music
in typing & computing
LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE (Frédéric Acquaviva and Loré Lixenberg) is proposing every first saturday of the month a new series of exhibitions hosted by THE OUTSIDERS GALLERY (64 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB). Following the Berlin space where 10 exhibitions were held between 2014 and 2017 (receiving the Berlin Senate Artists Space Prize in 2017), they will organize 10 pop up exhibitions of ONE DAY ONLY starting on APRIL 5.
What's your type? will display works using typewriter or computer in the fields of poetry (concrete poetry), art (lettrism) and music (notations), including international artists never shown before in UK.
It will include some original works realised on a typewriter machine from 1947 to 2024 by Dom Sylvester Houédard, Bob Cobbing, Keith Armstrong, Cozette de Charmoy, Robin Tomens, Karel Adamus, Jiri Kolar, Jan Burka, Jiri Valoch, Alan Ridell, Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Gil Wolman, Ben Vautier, Henri Chopin, Pierre Garnier, Ilse Garnier, Jean-François Bory, Joël Hubaut, Charles Pennequin, Maggy Mauritz, Ferdinand Kriwet, Franz Mon, Roberto Altmann, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, Willem Boshoff, Öyvind Fahlström, Ake Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnson, Berndt Petterson, Carl Reuterswärd, Enzo Minarelli, Maurizio Nannucci, Eduardo Kac, Betty Lee White, Christopher Knowles, Kazunori Yaoita as well as an anonymous typewriter work.
It will also show computer related works of Max Bense, Manfred Mohr, Timm Ulrichs, Bernard Heidsieck, Henri Chopin, Broutin, Jeff Nimp as well as music works using typewriter by Frédéric Acquaviva, John Cage or computer by Pierre Barbaud and Denis Dufour.
5pm : Performance by Enzo Minarelli (IT)
Enzo Minarelli (1951) is the founder of the Archivio 3VITre di Polipoesia (1983) and the creator of the term "polypoetry" (sound poetry, video poetry, concrete and visual poetry...).
Next exhibition : MAY 3 (noon to 6pm)
MAGGY MAURITZ & AUDE JESSEMIN, Hypergraphic Women in presence of the german lettrist artist Maggy Mauritz (1941), the first female artist to have used spray bomb in art since the mid sixties.
THE OUTSIDERS GALLERY, 64 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB Contact : acquavivafrederic@gmail.com / lorelixenberg@gmail.com