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Ralph Rumney (June 5th 1934 - March 6th 2002) is a British painter , born with Halifax in England. In 1957, Rumney founded the psychogeographic Association of London, which was dissolved to create the Internationale Situationniste (IS) with Walter Olmo, Michele Bernstein, Asger Jorn and Guy Debord in the Italian village of Cosio d' Arroscia.

Seven months later, Rumney had to leave the IS to have missed to supplement a report/ratio psychogeographic on Venice. (1).

Rumney was Conscientious objector all his life, and a nomad for most of this one. It was described like a “recluse” and a “Putain of the media”. He saw his existence as a permanent adventure and an experiment without end. He oscillated, like writes it his friend Guy Atkins, “between shortage and an opulence almost absurd. One day it occupied a miserable room in Neal Street with London, in a house divided by people without the penny. The following day, one could meet it in Harry' S Bar in Venice, or with the inauguration of a max Ernst with Paris. It seemed to accept poverty with more equanimity than the richness”.

A book on its life, The Map Is Not The Territory (Manchester University Close, ISBN 0719059518) was published in 2001.

See also The Consul by Rumney (Back, ISBN 1859843956) published in 2002.

Ralph Rumney died of a cancer at his place with Manosque, Provence, the March 6th 2002 at the 67 years age.

The number 22 of the British review Vague published a long discussion with him.

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