Dufrene, Francois Rene, 1930-1982

Francois Dufrene was born on September 21, 1930 in Paris and was a French Nouveau realist visual artist, Lettrist and Ultra-Lettrist poet. He is primarily known as a pioneer in sound poetry and for his use of décollage within Nouveau réalisme.Dufrene explored vocal possibilities of concrete music, a form of expression based on spontaneity directly recorded to tape, exploiting the noise music of sound, meaning and nonsense.He is considered one of the important artists in that Neo-Dada art movement.