Peter de Cupere

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Peter de Cupere
Born
Leuven, Belgium
OccupationOlfactory artist

Peter de Cupere (born 1970 in Leuven, Belgium) is an olfactory artist who lives and works in Antwerp. [1] De Cupere creates work intended to explore experiences of smelling. [2]

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As part of his olfactory art practice, De Cupere explores technology. He invented the "Olfactio" in collaboration with Cartamundi. In collaboration with Gluon, Callebaut and chocolatier Patrick Mertens, he invented "Cocoa 5 Senses". Starting in 1997 and going on until 2004 he invented the first working scent piano, called Olfactiano. [3] The Aesthetics of Smelly Art [4] In 2012 he invented The Blind Smell Stick and The Blind Smell Touch. [5] These smell devices let the spectators find their way or experience objects and food just by smelling. It was exhibited for the first time in the World Creativity Biennale in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. [6]

Curation

As a curator, in 2015 he initiated the exhibition ″The Smell of War″, which included other prominent olfactory artists such as Maki Ueda, Clara Ursitti, Christophe Laudamiel, Oswaldo Macia, Lisa Kirk and more. [7]

Interested in mobile installations, he also created ″The Olfactory″ in 2014, a travelling container project that presented 33 one day olfactory art exhibitions in 7 weeks [8]

Teaching and Education

Peter de Cupere is a tutor affiliated with the ″PXL-MAD School of Arts″ in Hasselt, Belgium [9] and a researcher. [10] He has done a PhD research and received his doctor title at the PXL MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, BE [11] in collaboration with the University of Hasselt, BE [12] and the Free University of Brussels, BE. [13] He has two master's degrees [14] and a Laureate degree in Fine Arts. [15] As a tutor he is the joint founder of the Open Lab [16] where he teaches the use of the approximative senses, smell, taste and touch in the Senses Lab.

In 2014 Peter de Cupere wrote The Olfactory Art Manifest. [17] On August 11, 2014, 101 years after the manifest of Carlo Carra “La Pittura dei suoni, rumori, odori: Manifesto futurista” (The Painting of Sounds, Noises, Smells: Futurist Manifesto), [18] Peter de Cupere signed his Olfactory Art manifest with his own smell. After two years of intensively collecting his bodily smells, he got only a small bottle ‘Own Smell’ at his disposal. With this smell extract he signed the manifest. The manifest has been shown in several exhibitions; Belle Haleine, The scent of Art in the Tinguely Museum [19] in Basel, CH, as in the exhibition There's Something in the Air! at Villa Rot, Burgrieden, DE [20]

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Articles

Education and Residency Programs

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References

  1. ↑ “Scent Art Net, Peter de Cupere (Antwerp, Belgium)“
  2. ↑ "DE CUPERE PETER". PXL-MAD. March 6, 2016.
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  5. ↑ "World Creativity Biennale, Rio de Janeiro 2012 | Peter De Cupere". www.peterdecupere.net.
  6. ↑ "Artist's 'Blind Smell Stick' Guides Your Nose". HuffPost. November 19, 2012.
  7. ↑ "The Smell of War | Peter De Cupere". www.peterdecupere.net.
  8. ↑ "Home". www.theolfactory.org.
  9. ↑ "DE CUPERE PETER". PXL-MAD. March 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ Peter de Cupere is member of the research group Manufracture ″Manufracture″ at the PXL-MAD School of Arts
  11. ↑ "MANUFrACTURE (Research group)". PXL-MAD. February 29, 2016.
  12. ↑ "UHasselt - Knowledge in action". www.uhasselt.be.
  13. ↑ "Home". www.vub.be.
  14. ↑ de Cupere studied Publicity Graphic Design at Phiko Hasselt, BE that now is known as ″PXL-MAD School of Arts″ and he studied Print Making in Sint Lucas, Brussels, BE that now is known as ″Luca School of Arts″
  15. ↑ "″HISK Laureates in the Fine Arts of 1999″".
  16. ↑ "Open Lab". PXL-MAD. June 11, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Home". olfactoryartmanifest.com.
  18. ↑ "The Painting of Sounds, Noises, and Odors. Futurist Manifesto". www.wdl.org. August 11, 1913.
  19. ↑ "Grösste Sammlung kinetischer Werke von Jean Tinguely | Museum Tinguely Basel". www.tinguely.ch.
  20. ↑ ″There’s Somethin in the Air! – Scent in Art″ curated by Caro Verbeek and ″The Fragrant Breath of a European Spring by Ashraf Osman″
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