Louis Pons

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Pons in 1995

Louis Pons (30 April 1927 – 12 January 2021) was a French collage artist. He specialised in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk.[1] In Agnès Varda's documentary The Gleaners and I, Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;"[2] and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.[1]

Pons was born on 30 April 1927.[3] He died on 12 January 2021, at the age of 93.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tidying up as a function of art". Retrieved 8 February 2008. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ "Documentary collects insightful tales". Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2008.
  3. 1 2 "L'artiste plasticien Louis Pons est mort". Le Monde. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2023.