François Di Dio

Biography

Childhood and adolescence

Of sicilian origin (of Enna located at the feet of the Etna) by his parents, the young person François Di Dio has grows with Algiers where its family had settled after having flees Fascism about 1928. With the college, he discovers with passion the Typographie whereas he was in load of a small review printed by a certain Mr Marcel. After the baccalaureat, while being registered in Right, it discovers the work of Arthur Rimbaud, crosses Philippe Soupault, Albert Camus, Claude Roy, Emmanuel Roblès in the editor Edmond Charlot whereas the war starts on the continent and that resistance is organized in the streets of Algiers.

From 1943 in October 1945, Di Dio joined the Division Leclerc: he knows the Countryside of France which carries out it south of Italy as far as Alsace and beyond the Rhine.

First Black Sun

After having found in 1946 of work with the tce (Work and Culture) as secretary, he writes with Paul Eluard which opens its library to him, presents it to insane companions books like him. He creates the Presses of the French Book then, 29 rue de l'Echaudé in the Life in Paris where he publishes inter alia Jean Paulhan and Kafka, both illustrated by engravings of Wols.

The International exhibition of the Surréalisme of 1947 at Aimé Maeght in Paris marks it deeply. Thanks to the poetess Nora Mitrani it will meet André Breton in 1949. By reading Mystery 17 , Di Dio discovers a sentence of the mystic Eliphas Levi: " Osiris is a black god, the enigmatic word which one throws to the ear of the initié". The idea of a collection of literature and art, " The Noir" Sun; , was born with the blessing from Breton.

Y will be published inter alia French poems of Ghérasim Luca with illustrations of the Rumanian painter Jacques Hérold, poems of Jean-Pierre Duprey, a text of Camille Bryen illustrated by Jean Arp. With Charles Autrand, it also launches between 1950 and 1953 the review Positions (3 numbers of which the " First assessment of art actuel") who had sometimes troubles with the censure. Its edition of Justine of the Marquis de Sade, prefaced by Georges Bataille including an engraving of Hans Bellmer was not worried although Di Dio had carried out by principle the Registration of copyright.

In 1954, it puts in sleep the collection of the Black Sun which will be diffused by its accomplice Eric Losfeld. It leaves for a long tour to India from where it brings back materials of a work published jointly with Nicole Carrying out, Gita Godiva (préf. of Marguerite Yourcenar, ED. Emile Paul); then goes to sub-Saharan Africa where it carries out several films of which the funeral dogons (Mali) with the professor Marcel Griaule. The disc resulting from this work obtains the price Charles Cros the following year.

The return of the Black Sun

Very marked by the War of Algeria, the little of case that one makes of poetry and of the poets (the suicide of Duprey in 1959), Di Dio decides as of 1962 to start again the Black Sun according to a radically new formula which it owes in André Breton, still him.

In 1929, Breton describes one of its dreams: a book of coarse fabric whose back was a dwarf of garden. In 1936, Georges Hugnet will open a bookstore with the ensign of the Livre object, creating books of artists with only one specimen (the famous binding laces of Die Puppe , for Bellmer).

Di Dio decides to upset the rules of the high bibliophilism and reinvents then carries out the concept of " deliver-objet" multiple, edition of the same poetic text in three series limited, thanks to the joint work of one or more recognized artists, of the typographers, the bookbinders (cf A. Moeglin-Delcroix). The first series (A) is the deliver-object with properly spoken, published with few specimens (less than 100), according to the example of certain engravers or artistic bronze editors. The series B known as " Club" , of " bibliophilism populaire" according to Di Dio, drew on average with 300 specimens while the series C, 1500 e.g., included/understood a work connected to the format pocket, illustrated and printed.

The first artists and poets who agree to play the game together are:

- max Ernst, Jacques Hérold and André Breton as a preface writer for posthumous poems of Jean-Pierre Duprey, Behind its double , Oct. 1964

- Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti and Robert Lebel for the Double sight , Dec. 1964

Works, more than one hundred, today untraceable that one can admire with the reserve of the rare and invaluable Books - National library of France or in Frac the Limousin which has the entirety of the books published by François Di Dio.

The Black Sun ceases its in April 1983 official jobs.

From 1983 to 1991, Di Dio animates Criapl' E (Research center international of the visual arts and the writing) with some friends (Philippe Audoin, Jacques Frélaut, Monique & Bernard Duval, Henry Bussière, Anne Frélaut-Ortner, Michel Guillet) where it publishes Ghérasim Luca/Micheline Catti, Kafka/Dado. The complete work (at the time) of the poet Jean-Pierre Duprey will leave to the Christian Bourgois editions in an ultimate deliver-object (deliver-nails).

In September 1991, the Biennial one of the Book of artist of Uzerche and association Country-Landscape, devotes a exposure-conference to him then is with the tower of the Lecointre-Ozanne gallery to organize a mini-retrospective in Paris.

In 1993, the Square of Art of Nimes pays to him homage in an inaugural exposure of the whole of the works published by the Black Sun (cf the reasoned catalog published in this occasion).

In 1997, encouraged by the faithful ones of the Black Sun (Bernard Heidsieck, Marie-Laure Dagoit, Philippe Di Folco and others), it will publish under the pseudonym of François-Sebastien Aréna (of the name of his/her mother), provisional Eternité , in the editor Georges Fall, a book of memories of the black years (1942-45) with a cover of Jacques Monory.

In the editor Jose Corti, it helps with the edition of all the work of Ghérasim Luca whose here the silanxieuse voice (1997) for which it regulates the " setting in page" typographical.

The poet André Velter will say of him to his death: " Di Dio placed at the most point the direction of the honor and that of the revolt, combining ardor and fidelity, nobility and provocation".

List works published under the direction of Di Dio

August 1st

François Di Dio published under his direction more than 300 works including 156 pennies the reference " Noir" sun; and 144 as a editor-council (Draeger, Tchou, Pauvert, Fall, Bourgois, etc).

With the Presses of the French Book (1948-1953)

Paulhan, Jean: the Shepherd of Scotland followed the Passengers , the Philosopher's stone , ill. of 5 dry points of Wols, 1948
Kafka, Franz: the guest of dead the followed In our synagog , the sword , new lamps , tr. of Marthe Robert, ill. of 4 dry points of Wols, 1948
Massian, Michel: the Woman of my life , drawings of Pierre Dabouis, 1948 (with Marcel Knops)
Arland, Marcel: the Evil , ill. of Andre Masson, 1949 (not published)
Supervielle, Jules: the Creation of the animals , drawings of Jacques Christmas, 1951

PLF, collection " The Noir" Sun;

Sade, Marquis of: Justine or misfortunes of the virtue, préf. of Georges Bataille, ill. of Hans Bellmer, coll " Imagination" , 1950 (edition of Andre Belamich, taken again by Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1953 for complete works)

Di Dio would have diffused between 1950 and 1957 with the sign " With the Noir" Sun; , street of Scalded editors and diffusers the erotic as Eric Losfeld threatened by the censure and defended by the lawyer Maurice Boy: it is there in an unquestionable way that Philosophy in the boudoir of the Marquis de Sade published by Pauvert (under black cover) there will be seized.

Duprey, Jean-Pierre: Behind its double , with letter-foreword of André Breton, coll " Poésie" , 1950
Rimbaud, Arthur: the Letter of the indicator - a heart under a cassock - the Album zutic , suiv. of the other season by Armel Guerne, 1950
Bryen, Camille: Time perforated , drawings and wood engraved of columns = 1}} {{DEFAULTSORT: Di Dio, François}} [[Category: Birth in 1921]] [[Category: Death in 2005]] [[Category: French editor]] [[Category: French writer]] [[be: François Di Dio
Random links: Headlight of Biarritz | History of Guinea | Mayran | John Bracken | Line of Champsaur | Abdelkader_Hachani