Brion Gysin Retrospective at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

A retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris maps Brion Gysin's avant-garde influence, highlighting his cut-up technique and Dreamachine. Gysin, a painter and writer, discovered cut-ups in 1959 at the Beat Hotel, a Dadaist method of rearranging text. The exhibition also features works by artists he inspired, including William S. Burroughs, Keith Haring, and Patti Smith. Gysin lived in Paris for much of his life, studying at the Sorbonne in the 1930s, frequenting the Beat Hotel in the 1960s, and residing near the Pompidou Center from the 1970s until his death in 1986. He bequeathed his estate to the city of Paris.