Guy Bleus

Quick Facts

Full Name	Guy Bleus
Occupation	Choreographer
Date Of Birth	Oct 23, 1950(1950-10-23)
Age	74
Birthplace	Hasselt
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Libra

Guy Bleus Biography

Guy Bleus is one of the most popular and richest Choreographer who was born on October 23, 1950 in Hasselt, Flemish Region, Belgium. Guy Bleus (born October 23 1950, in Hasselt, Belgium) is an writer, artist, and archivist. He is closely associated with olfactory arts and visual poetry, as well as performance art, and the movement known as mail art.

One of his works of performance that he performed in the 1980s was published in the journal of the artist Force Mental. The show took place at the theater Il Ventuno in Hasselt, and was described as the following: “Guy Bleus wears a costume made of official stamps of 1/2fr. He cuts his moustache into a Hitler- moustache. Against the wall he hangs photocopies of Hitler’s head. Enlargements whereby the moustache is growing bigger (till A3 format). Bleus sticks then stamps, the same as of which his costume is made of and stamps them with his number-stamp: 42.292. Then he sticks a naked girl full with stamps of 1/2fr and stamps them with the number stamp. Finally he cuts off his Hitler-moustache and breaks a mirror.”

Another fascinating performance of Bleus is called ‘Value Shredder’ (1982, Brussels, Gallery Entr’Act). Bleus took hundreds of real 50 Belgian franc banknotes and made a suit out of them. Wearing this suit he began his performance. He gave the audience plastic raincoats to put on and asked them to hand over their identity cards. He put the cards into a paper shredder, then tore up Mein Kampf and threw the pages into the shredder too. When everything was completely shredded he blew odours and flour over the public with a fan. Finally, he removed his suit and set it on fire. After the performance the public received an identity card from planet Mars. A life-size photo of Bleus’s money suit is part of the art collection of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB).

He wrote and published many essays on the subject of networking art. About his essay Exploring Mail Art (1984), Géza Perneckzy wrote: “The study of Guy Bleus outranks all other publications with its theoretical weight and conciseness.” Moreover, he contributed to significant publications, such as Piotr Rypson’s Mail Art, Chuck Welch’s Eternal Network, A Mail Art Anthology, or Vittore Baroni’s Postcards – Cartoline d’artista. He participated in many artists’ periodicals.

In search of the potential of art communication using communication media, he studied the postal system using indirect correspondence (1979) and sought out an alternative postal system using Airmail with balloons. Alongside Charles Francois he was a pioneer in using computers connected to an artist’s modem (in 1989). He also used reproduction media like Microfilm as well as CD-ROM and DVD-ROM to create artistic content.

Guy Bleus Net Worth

Guy Bleus is one of the richest Choreographer from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Guy Bleus 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bleus is the very first artist to have systematically utilized scents in his plastic art. In 1978, he wrote The Experience of working With Odours In it, he criticized the lack of interest in the use of scents for visual art. Since then, he has shown the work of smell artists, sent perfumed objects and constructed scent installations. He also staged spray shows where the audience was sprayed with a mist of scent on the spectators.

In 1978, he established The Administration Centre – 42.292 which became a vast art archive, containing artworks and details of thousands of artists from over 60 nations. “Guy Bleus has one of the finest archives of mail art in Europe, if not the world.”

Impressive are the numerous international art projects which Bleus has organised, such as Are you experienced? L.H.F.S. (1981), W.A.A.: Mail eARTh Atlas (1981–83), Telegraphy (1983), Aerograms (1984), Cavellini Festival 1984, Art is Books (1991), Fax Performances (1992–1993), Private Art Detective: Sealed Confessions, and Building Plans & Schemes (1993).

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In 2005–2006 Bleus organised the olfactory mail art project Scents, Locks & Kisses with 778 artists from 43 countries in the Art Museum Z33. The website is a slideshow with all the works of the participating artists.

Facts & Trivia

Guy Ranked on the list of most popular Choreographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Guy Bleus celebrates birthday on October 23 of every year.