41-474: Gysin may refer to: Brion Gysin (1916–1986), English painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist Greta Gysin (born 1983), Swiss politician Werner Gysin (1915–1998), Swiss mathematician Gysin homomorphism Gysin sequence See also [ edit ] Gisin (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
82-471: A collection of homages to Gysin, was authored by Joe Ambrose, Frank Rynne , and Terry Wilson with contributions by Marianne Faithfull , John Cale , William S. Burroughs, John Giorno , Stanley Booth , Bill Laswell , Mohamed Hamri , Keith Haring and Paul Bowles . A monograph on Gysin was published in 2003 by Thames and Hudson. Prose Radio Cinema Music Painting Leonor Fini Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996)
123-693: A fairy tale-inspired painting called Les Sorcières for the Mexican actress, María Félix . She also designed the costumes for two films: Renato Castellani's Romeo and Juliet (1954) and John Huston 's A Walk with Love and Death (1968). In London, she exhibited paintings at the Kaplan gallery in 1960 and at the Hanover Gallery in 1967. A 1986 retrospective at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris featured over 260 of her works in
164-506: A flophouse located at 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur that would become famous as the Beat Hotel . Working on a drawing, he discovered a Dada technique by accident: William Burroughs and I first went into techniques of writing, together, back in room No. 15 of the Beat Hotel during the cold Paris spring of 1958... Burroughs was more intent on Scotch-taping his photos together into one great continuum on
205-413: A lifetime career, great clumps of ideas, as casually as a locomotive throws off sparks". Later that year a heavily edited version of his novel, The Last Museum , was published posthumously by Faber & Faber (London) and by Grove Press (New York). As a joke, Gysin had contributed a recipe for marijuana fudge to a cookbook by Alice B. Toklas ; it was included for publication, becoming famous under
246-656: A lot of theatre". One of his jobs was to look after her beloved Persian cats. Over the years she acquired as many as 23 of them; they shared her bed and were allowed to roam the dining-table at mealtimes. The 'inner circle' expanded to include the American artist, Richard Overstreet [ fr ] and the Argentine poet Juan-Bautista Pinero. Rogomelec (Paris, Stock, 1979). English translation by William Kulik and Serena Shanken Skwersky (Cambridge MA: Wakefield Press, 2020). A biographical song about Leonor Fini's life, "Leonor",
287-477: A photograph, one of his best known, of her naked in a pool with a shaved pubis. The photograph of Fini sold in 2007 for $ 305,000 – the highest price paid at auction for one of Cartier-Bresson's works to that date. Fini had no formal artistic training, but grew up surrounded by the Renaissance and Mannerist styles of Italy. Her first major exhibition was in 1936 at New York's Julian Levy Gallery . Though Fini
328-541: A restaurant called The 1001 Nights, with his friend Mohamed Hamri , who was the cook. Gysin hired the Master Musicians of Jajouka from the village of Jajouka to perform alongside entertainment that included acrobats, a dancing boy and fire eaters. The musicians performed there for an international clientele that included William S. Burroughs. Gysin lost the business in 1958, and the restaurant closed permanently. That same year, Gysin returned to Paris, taking lodgings in
369-417: A variety of media including watercolours and drawings, theatre/costume designs, paintings and masks. In the 1970s, she wrote three novels: Rogomelec , Moumour; Contes pour enfants velu and Oneiropompe . Many of Fini's paintings featured women in positions of power or in very sexualised contexts. Madonna used the imagery of one of the exhibits, Le Bout du Monde, in her video, "Bedtime Story" in 1994. In
410-733: A very traumatic colostomy , that drove him to extreme depression and to a suicide attempt. Later, in Fire: Words by Day – Images by Night (1975), a crudely lucid text, he would describe the horrendous ordeal he went through. In 1985 Gysin was made an American Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . He'd begun to work extensively with noted jazz soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy . They recorded an album in 1986 with French musician Ramuntcho Matta, featuring Gysin singing/rapping his own texts, with performances by Lacy, Don Cherry , Elli Medeiros , Lizzy Mercier Descloux and more. The album
451-632: Is part of the pre-war generation of Parisian artists often overlooked in favour of male contemporaries, she was very important in the Surrealist movement. Fini never officially joined it though she did show her work alongside other Surrealist artists. She was included in Peggy Guggenheim 's 1943 show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. She worked for Elsa Schiaparelli in
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#1732876461790492-598: The 2013's Dreamachines album) and Brian Jones . Gysin is the subject of John Geiger's biography, Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin , and features in Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine , also by Geiger. Man From Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin , a biographical study of Burroughs and Gysin with
533-569: The BBC and later published in a pamphlet. I was in Paris in the summer of 1960; this was after the publication there of Naked Lunch . I became interested in the possibilities of this technique, and I began experimenting myself. Of course, when you think of it, The Waste Land was the first great cut-up collage, and Tristan Tzara had done a bit along the same lines. Dos Passos used the same idea in 'The Camera Eye' sequences in USA . I felt I had been working toward
574-658: The Polish writer Konstanty Jeleński , known as Kot in Rome in January 1952. She was delighted to discover that he was the illegitimate half-brother of Sforzino Sforza [ fr ] , who had been one of her favorite lovers. Kot joined Fini and Lepri in their Paris apartment in October 1952 and the three remained inseparable until their deaths. She later employed an assistant to join the household, which he described as "a little bit of prison and
615-528: The Surrealist Group and began associating with Valentine Hugo , Leonor Fini , Salvador Dalí , Picasso and Dora Maar . A year later, he had his first exhibition at the Galérie Quatre Chemins in Paris with Ernst, Picasso, Hans Arp , Hans Bellmer , Victor Brauner , Giorgio de Chirico , Dalí, Marcel Duchamp , René Magritte , Man Ray and Yves Tanguy . On the day of the preview, however, he
656-795: The age of 17 and a gallery in Trieste exhibited one of her paintings that year. She thereafter received a commission to paint portraits from dignitaries in Milan where she had her first one-woman show at the Galerie Barbaroux in 1929. She moved to Paris in 1931 when she was 24. There, she became acquainted with Carlo Carrà and Giorgio de Chirico , who influenced much of her work. She also came to know Paul Éluard , Max Ernst , Georges Bataille , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Picasso , André Pieyre de Mandiargues , and Salvador Dalí . She traveled Europe by car with Mandiargues and Cartier-Bresson where Cartier-Bresson took
697-718: The age of fifteen, Gysin was sent next to Downside School in Stratton-on-the-Fosse , near Bath in England, a prestigious school for boys run by Benedictine monks. Despite attending both Anglican and Roman Catholic schools, Gysin was already an atheist when he left St Joseph's. In 1934, he moved to Paris to study La Civilisation Française , an open course given at the Sorbonne where he made literary and artistic contacts through Marie Berthe Aurenche, Max Ernst 's second wife. He joined
738-469: The child. Leonor was raised there and she would be expelled from various schools for being rebellious. As a Catholic, Herminio refused to give Malvina a divorce, which was only granted to her in 1919 through an Italian court. Custody battles often involved Fini and her mother in sudden flights and disguises. In her early teens, an eye disease forced her to wear bandages on both eyes. After recovering, she decided to become an artist. She moved to Milan at
779-580: The experiment dramatically changed the landscape of American literature . Gysin helped Burroughs with the editing of several of his novels including Interzone , and wrote a script for a film version of Naked Lunch , which was never produced. The pair collaborated on a large manuscript for Grove Press titled The Third Mind , but it was determined that it would be impractical to publish it as originally envisioned. The book later published under that title incorporates little of this material. Interviewed for The Guardian in 1997, Burroughs explained that Gysin
820-548: The expulsion, the more elaborate involving 'insubordination' or lèse majesté towards Breton". After serving in the U.S. army during World War II, Gysin published a biography of Josiah "Uncle Tom" Henson titled, To Master, a Long Goodnight: The History of Slavery in Canada (1946). A gifted draughtsman, he took an 18-month course learning the Japanese language (including calligraphy) that would greatly influence his artwork. In 1949, he
861-489: The eyes closed", the flicker device uses alpha waves in the 8–16 Hz range to produce a change of consciousness in receptive viewers. In April 1974, while sitting at a social engagement, Gysin had a very noticeable rectal bleeding. In May he wrote to Burroughs complaining he was not feeling well. A short time later he was diagnosed with colon cancer and began to receive cobalt treatment. Between December 1974 and April 1975, Gysin had to undergo several surgeries, among them
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#1732876461790902-496: The late thirties and early forties and designed the bottle for the perfume "Shocking", basing the shape on Mae West's torso. Fini networked into theatre circles when she started taking on costume design projects in the 1930s as a source of extra income. She also illustrated books and some of her best-known works in this area are her drawings for a 1944 edition of the Marquis de Sade 's ''Juliette.' Between 1944 and 1972, Fini’s main work
943-461: The name Alice B. Toklas brownies . In a 1966 interview by Conrad Knickerbocker for The Paris Review , William S. Burroughs explained that Brion Gysin was, to his knowledge, "the first to create cut-ups": A friend, Brion Gysin, an American poet and painter, who has lived in Europe for thirty years, was, as far as I know, the first to create cut-ups. His cut-up poem, Minutes to Go , was broadcast by
984-549: The necessity for turning painters' techniques directly into writing. I picked up the raw words and began to piece together texts that later appeared as "First Cut-Ups" in Minutes to Go (Two Cities, Paris 1960). When Burroughs returned from London in September 1959, Gysin not only shared his discovery with his friend but the new techniques he had developed for it. Burroughs then put the techniques to use while completing Naked Lunch and
1025-481: The other artists and writers inhabiting or visiting Paris. Fini illustrated about 50 books, including '' Satyricon '' and works by Jean Genet and Charles Baudelaire. She illustrated many works of classic authors and poets, including Edgar Allan Poe , Charles Baudelaire and Shakespeare , as well as texts by new writers. Leonor Fini illustrated books by Lise Deharme , including Le Poids d’un oiseau in 1955 and Oh! Violette ou la Politesse des Végétaux in 1969. She
1066-694: The same goal; thus it was a major revelation to me when I actually saw it being done. According to José Férez Kuri, author of Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age (2003) and co-curator of a major retrospective of the artist's work at The Edmonton Art Gallery in 1998, Gysin's wide range of "radical ideas would become a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation , as well as for their successors (among them David Bowie , Mick Jagger , Keith Haring , and Laurie Anderson )". Other artists include Genesis P-Orridge , John Zorn (as displayed on
1107-667: The spring of 1987, Fini had an exhibition at London's Editions Graphique's gallery. The San Francisco Modern Museum of Art also featured her work in an exhibition entitled "Women, Surrealism, and Self-representation" in 1999. Fini's work often included sphinxes, werewolves, and witches. Most of the characters in her art were female or androgynous. She painted portraits of Jean Genet , Anna Magnani , Jacques Audiberti , Alida Valli , Jean Schlumberger and Suzanne Flon as well as many other celebrities and wealthy visitors to Paris. Her friends included Jean Cocteau , Giorgio de Chirico , and Alberto Moravia , Fabrizio Clerici and most of
1148-593: The title Gysin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gysin&oldid=1213459717 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brion Gysin Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986)
1189-470: The wall, where scenes faded and slipped into one another, than occupied with editing the monster manuscript... Naked Lunch appeared and Burroughs disappeared. He kicked his habit with Apomorphine and flew off to London to see Dr Dent, who had first turned him on to the cure. While cutting a mount for a drawing in room No. 15, I sliced through a pile of newspapers with my Stanley blade and thought of what I had said to Burroughs some six months earlier about
1230-410: Was "the only man that I've ever respected in my life. I've admired people, I've liked them, but he's the only man I've ever respected." In 1969, Gysin completed his finest novel, The Process , a work judged by critic Robert Palmer as "a classic of 20th century modernism". A consummate innovator, Gysin altered the cut-up technique to produce what he called permutation poems in which a single phrase
1271-519: Was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community – a big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked." Married once, for a brief period, to Federico Veneziani, they were divorced after she met the Italian Count Stanislao Lepri , who abandoned his diplomatic career shortly after meeting Fini and lived with her thereafter. She met
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1312-656: Was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet , performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique , alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs . With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine , a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script . Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin
1353-664: Was among the first Fulbright Fellows . His goal was to research, at the University of Bordeaux and in the Archivo de Indias in Seville, Spain, the history of slavery, a project that he later abandoned. He moved to Tangier , Morocco, after visiting the city with novelist and composer Paul Bowles in 1950. In 1952/3 he met the travel writer and sexual adventurer Anne Cumming and they remained friends until his death. In 1954 in Tangier, Gysin opened
1394-653: Was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Fini was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina , to Malvina Braun Dubich (born in Trieste , with German , Slavic and Venetian ancestry) and Herminio Fini (with ancestry from Benevento , Italy ). Herminio was a handsome and very wealthy man, but also tyrannical with extreme religious views. He made his young wife very unhappy and, within eighteen months of Leonor's birth, she fled back to Trieste with
1435-472: Was created by recording a gun firing at different distances and then splicing the sounds. That year, the piece was subsequently used as a theme for the Paris performance of Le Domaine Poetique , a showcase for experimental works by people like Gysin, François Dufrêne , Bernard Heidsieck , and Henri Chopin . With Sommerville, he built the Dreamachine in 1961. Described as "the first art object to be seen with
1476-477: Was expelled from the Surrealist Group by André Breton , who ordered the poet Paul Éluard to take down his pictures. Gysin was 19 years old. His biographer, John Geiger, suggests the arbitrary expulsion "had the effect of a curse. Years later, he blamed other failures on the Breton incident. It gave rise to conspiracy theories about the powerful interests who seek control of the art world. He gave various explanations for
1517-501: Was in costume design for film, theatre, ballet and opera including, famously, the first ballet performed by Roland Petit 's Ballet de Paris, Les Demoiselles de la nuit , featuring a young Margot Fonteyn in 1948. In 1949, Frederick Ashton choreographed a ballet she had conceptualized, Le Rêve de Leonor ("Leonor's Dream"), with music by Benjamin Britten , and Fini designed the hybrid human-animal costumes for it as well. In 1959, Fini made
1558-563: Was reissued on CD in 1993 by Crammed Discs , under the title Self-Portrait Jumping . On 13 July 1986 Brion Gysin died of lung cancer. Anne Cumming arranged his funeral and for his ashes to be scattered at the Caves of Hercules in Morocco. An obituary by Robert Palmer published in The New York Times described him as a man who "threw off the sort of ideas that ordinary artists would parlay into
1599-459: Was repeated several times with the words rearranged in a different order with each reiteration. An example of this is "I don't dig work, man / Man, work I don't dig." Many of these permutations were derived using a random sequence generator in an early computer program written by Ian Sommerville. Commissioned by the BBC in 1960 to produce material for broadcast, Gysin's results included "Pistol Poem", which
1640-749: Was the only man I ever respected." John Clifford Brian Gysin was born at the Canadian military hospital in Taplow , Buckinghamshire , England. His mother, Stella Margaret Martin, was a Canadian from Deseronto, Ontario . His father, Leonard Gysin, a captain with the Canadian Expeditionary Force , was killed in action eight months after his son's birth. Stella returned to Canada and settled in Edmonton , Alberta where her son became "the only Catholic day-boy at an Anglican boarding school". Leaving that school at
1681-499: Was very generous with her illustrations and donated many drawings to writers to help them get published. She is, perhaps, best known for her graphic illustrations for the sexually explicit Histoire d'O . Fini was openly bisexual and lived in a long-term polyamorous relationship. She told Whitney Chadwick in 1982: "I am a woman, therefore I have had the 'feminine experience', but I am not a lesbian". She also said: "Marriage never appealed to me, I've never lived with one person. Since I