Collection: Pierre-Marc de Biasi

Pierre-Marc de Biasi (born 1950, Paris) is a French scholar, writer, and artist whose early practice in the late 1970s and early 1980s moved within the Parisian experimental avant-garde — engaging with conceptual art, visual poetry, systems-based image structures, and the overlapping networks of concrete poetry, mail art, and artist publishing that circulated through France during the period. His work from this moment sits within a wider ecosystem connecting Galerie J. & J. Donguy, Fluxus-adjacent practices, and post-minimal graphic experimentation.

De Biasi subsequently became one of France’s leading literary scholars and the foremost specialist on Gustave Flaubert’s manuscripts and genetic criticism, directing research at the CNRS and publishing extensively on textual genesis and writing processes. This dual trajectory — from visual and conceptual art practice to manuscript scholarship — gives his early printed matter a particular retrospective interest: documents from a moment when writing, systems, image structures, and conceptual art still overlapped fluidly in the Parisian avant-garde.

This collection brings together printed matter and ephemera connected to de Biasi’s early artistic practice and exhibition history.