Guy Bleus

[1] His work covers different areas, including administration (which he calls Artministration), postal and olfactory communication.

In 1978 he founded The Administration Centre – 42.292 which became a huge art archive with the works and information of 6000 artists from more than 60 countries.

In 1978 he wrote the olfactory manifesto The Thrill of Working with Odours in which he deplores the lack of interest in scents in the visual arts.

The performance took place in the venue Il Ventuno in Hasselt, and is described as follows: "Guy Bleus wears a costume made of official stamps of 1/2fr.

He gave the audience plastic raincoats to put on and asked them to hand over their identity cards.

[10] A life-size photo of Bleus's money suit is part of the art collection of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB).

Artists such as Ben Vautier, Shozo Shimamoto, Anna Banana, Julien Blaine, H.R.

With the participation of networking artists such as Vittore Baroni, Ken Friedman, John Held Jr., Ruud Janssen, György Galántai, Pawel Petasz and Géza Perneczky, he published in 1997 the first E-Mail-Art & Internet-Art Manifesto, an issue of his electronic zine.

[29] After a bureaucratic venture of 20 years he realised in 2003 (together with Jean Spiroux) the very first postage stamp on the theme mail art edited by an official Postal Service.

The publication Pêle-Mêle: Guy Bleus® – 42.292 had bracts perfumed with lavender essence and included a re-edition of his ID from planet Mars of 1979.