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Albert Dupont was born in October 1951 in Hanoi. After literary studies, he started engraving during his collaboration with Georges Visat, publisher of the Surrealists. He became friendly with the painter, Matta, and met Isidore Isou, theorist of Creativity. He joined the Lettrism movement and has been involved with it for many years, founding and editing various magazines. His work is in public and private collections and institutions internationally.

Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body of work totalling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and political theory. The movement has its theoretical roots in Dada and Surrealism. In French, the movement is called Lettrisme, from the French word for letter, arising from the fact that many of their early works centered around letters and other visual or spoken symbols. The Lettristes themselves prefer the spelling ‘Letterism’ for the Anglicized term, and this is the form that is used on those rare occasions when they produce or supervise English translations of their writings: however, ‘Lettrism’ is at least as common in English usage. The term, having been the original name that was first given to the group, has lingered as a blanket term to cover all of their activities, even as many of these have moved away from any connection to letters. But other names have also been introduced, either for the group as a whole or for its activities in specific domains, such as ‘the Isouian movement’, ‘youth uprising’, ‘hypergraphics’, ‘creatics’, ‘infinitesimal art’ and ‘excoördism’.

Dupont’s work is varied and addresses all the arts: painting, sculpture, printmaking, artist books, novels, movies, etc … where immersion in “the language” is all-important.

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