Guy Schraenen

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Guy Schraenen is the founder of the Gallery Kontakt, the publishing house Guy Schaenen éditeur and the Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C.) and an international known curator, publisher and advisor. Furthermore, he is the author of essays and various publications. His many activities are mainly focused on artists' publications of the various international avant-garde and independent art movements from the late 1950s until the 1980s.

Biography

Galerie Kontakt

In 1965 Schraenen founded the Galerie Kontakt in Antwerp, which existed until 1978.[1] In the beginning the program was aimed to the field of Lyrical Abstraction and Constructivism. The gallery presented: Bram Bogart, Lucio Fontana, Jef Geys, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Georges Mathieu, Georges Vantongerloo, Constructivism art in Belgium etc. Later the program shifted to activities related to the new avant-garde movements such as Visual poetry, Sound poetry, Sound art, Conceptual art, Fluxus, Mail art and artists' books.[2]

Guy Schraenen éditeur

In 1973 Schraenen founded the publishing house Guy Schraenen éditeur (Antwerp / Paris). Until 1978 he published artists' books, magazines, catalogues, ephemera, postcards, multiples, posters, records and films.[3]

Archive for Small Press & Communication

In 1974, Guy Schraenen founded the Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C.) (Antwerp, Belgium) together with Anne Marsily.[4] The aim was "...to collect and preserve all types of art documentation, emanating principally from artists’ initiatives and covering all fields the contemporary artist is active in."[5] The collection includes artists' publications mainly from the 1960s to the 1980s. These are visual works, sound works, text works and artists' writings. All together it is a fund of thousands of documents representing the works of several hundreds of artists from more than 25 countries. The A.S.P.C. is as well an artistic as a political statement. Although most of the artists are recognized now by a larger public, in this time they were neglected by the traditional art world. Therefore their preservation remains an important contribution to the knowledge of the international contemporary art scene of the 1960s and 1970s.[6]

Connected with the A.S.P.C. was an uninterrupted activity in its own Archive Space in which Schraenen organised exhibitions, lectures, concerts etc.[7] Also in his publications and his radio program I am an artist, he gave public access to the gathered works. All this happened on individual base and in collaboration with artists’ run spaces, museums and cultural centres in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Hungary, the Soviet Union, etc. In this frame he developed a close relationship with the Latin American and the Eastern Europe art scene. The Polish artist pl (Józef Robakowski) commented Schraenen's engagement in Poland in the 1970s: "Our contacts were broken mechanically. Letters were controlled and all parcels destroyed. But soon Guy Schraenen from Antwerp, an independent publisher, helped us and started to cooperate with us very actively. This contact was extremly [sic] helpful as far as the exchange of information beyond official, institutionalized channels was concerned."[8]

In 1999, the A.S.P.C. - a fund of ca. 50,000 documents - was acquired by the Museum Weserburg with support by the city of Bremen (Germany). It forms the cadre of the Research Centre for Artists’ Publications, a collaboration between the University of Bremen and the Museum Weserburg Bremen, "the largest and most outstanding collection of published artworks in Europe."[9]

A Museum within a Museum

In 1989, Guy Schraenen became the founding curator of the artists' publication collection A Museum within a Museum in the Museum Weserburg Bremen,[10] the first autonomous department of its kind: "Never before artists' books were regarded as art works and presented equally alongside paintings, sculptures, graphics, environments and installations in a museum"[11]

For many years Schraenen has been responsible for the collections and exhibitions of artists’ publications in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Fundação de Serralves in Porto, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (MGLC) and other institutions.


Exhibitions / Catalogues (Selection)[12]

Solo exhibitions

  • Ulises Carrión. We have won, haven't we? (1992: Amsterdam)
  • Dieter Roth. Gesammelte Werke u.a. (1992: Bremen)
  • Henri Chopin. Revue OU, Collection OU (1993: Bremen)
  • Peter Downsbrough. Books (1993: Bremen)
  • Richard Long. Step by step, page by pag (1993: Bremen, Porto)
  • Sol LeWitt. Systems in book form (1994: Bremen)
  • James Lee Byars. Perfect is my death world (1995: Bremen, Krems)
  • Brion Gysin. Dream machine (1995: Bremen)
  • Christian Boltanski. Inventar of all books published between 1969 and 1995, drawn up by G.S. (1996: Bremen, Köln, Budapest)
  • Marcel Broothaers. poetry and/or art (1997: Bremen)
  • Ben (Vautier). Books-magazines-invitations-posters (1998: Bremen)
  • Daniel Buren. Coloured and multiple impressions (1999: Bremen)
  • Hans Peter Feldmann. Bücher (1999: Bremen)
  • Ernst Caramelle. All the printed matter 1974-2004 (2005: Porto, Karlsruhe, Insbruck)
  • François Dufrêne (2007: Porto)
  • Nemo propheta in patria. Cavellini und andere Projekte (2014: Bremen)
  • Dear Reader. Don't Read. Retrospective Ulises Carrión (2016: Madrid, 2017: Mexico City)

Thematical exhibitions

  • Text-Sound-Image. Small Press Festival (1976: Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent)
  • Editions & Communications Marginales d’Amerique Latine (1976: Le Havre)
  • International Mail Art Festival (1980: Antwerp)
  • Poolse Avant-Garde (1985: Antwerp)
  • Kunst-enaars-publicaties (1988, Ghent)
  • Multiples and other multiples (1991: Leuven, Turnhout)
  • Metamorphoses of writing (1994: Bremen)
  • Erratum Musical (1994: Karlsruhe, Edinburg, Munich, Bremen)
  • Two houses - Le Corbusier/Melnikow (1995: Moscow)
  • D’une oeuvre l’autre (1996: Mariemont)
  • Out of Print. An archive as artistic concept (since 2001: Bremen, Zürich, Porto, Barcelona, Paris, Ljubljana, Erlangen)
  • Vinyl. Records and covers by artists (since 2005: Barcelona, Bremen, Porto, Paris, Moscow, etc.)
  • On the margins of art. Creation and political engagement (2009: MACBA Barcelona, Porto)
  • Una tirada de libros (2010: Madrid, Palma de Mallorca)
  • From Page to Space (2011: Porto, Bremen, Düren, Murska-Sobota)
  • Journey to the end of colour: Books and prints (2013, Museum Serralves Porto)
  • It is not new, it is a book (2014/15: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)
  • I call them simply books (2015: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)
  • More than a catalogue. The catalogue-boxes of the Museum Abteiberg-Mönchengladbach (2016: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)


References

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  12. ↑ Complete list of the exhibitions in: Guy Schraenen (2001) Out of Print, exhibition catalogue, Bremen; and: Guy Schraenen (2012) A Museum within a Museum, Bremen

Further reading

  • Miessner, Marie-Cécile, Les éditions de Guy Schraenen. In: Nouvelles de l'estampes. n° 33, 1977, p.  52–53
  • Schraenen, Guy Guy Schaenen Collectionneurs (fragment). Collection A.S.P.C. Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche: Pays-paysage, 1995
  • Jahre, Lutz Künstlerbücher, mehr als fünf Sinne. In: Unlimited Edition. Köln: Salon Verlag, 2001
  • Schwarz, Isabelle Archive für Künstlerpublikationen des 1960er bis 1980er Jahre. Köln: Schriftenreihe für Künstlerpublikationen, 2008, p. 43-89
  • Collected Writings Guy Schraenen. Essays, Statements, Interviews 1974-2013. Printversion und digital edition. Edited by Bettina Brach in collaboration with Maike Aden. Bremen: Centre for Artists' Publications, 2013
  • Guy Schraenen éditeur, exhibition catalogue, Paris: Librairie Didier Lecointre et Dominique Drouet, 2014. Download PDF-version

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