This book is the most important monograph devoted to the Swiss artist-photographer B\u00e9atrice Helg.\u00a0It offers a survey of her work from the past twenty-five years, and is accompanied by a poem\u00a0dedication by Robert Wilson, critical essays by Serge Linar\u00e8s and Philippe Piguet, and a poem by\u00a0Sylviane Dupuis.\u00a0Helg\u2019s \u0153uvre has a singular position within the photographic tradition of \u201cconstructed images.\u201d\u00a0Remote from hyperrealist or narrative imagery, her work displays abstract forms and luminous worlds.\u00a0Drawing on a passion for music and a marked sensitivity to notions of space and time, to architecture,\u00a0and to the staging of plays and operas, the artist creates monumental spaces in which sculpture,\u00a0painting, installation, and light interact. As poetic as they are spiritual, her photographs show strangely\u00a0beautiful universes of shadow and of light. Her work opens onto an infinity \u2014 onto a quest for the\u00a0absolute or a search for inner mystery.<\/p>\n
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B\u00e9atrice Helg<\/strong> was born in Geneva in 1956. After studying the cello, she studied photography in the\u00a0United States and worked in the Exhibitions Department of the International Center of Photography\u00a0(ICP) in New York.\u00a0From the onset, Helg developed a personal signature for her uses of space, light, and matter, and it\u00a0has been given international recognition. More than sixty-five solo exhibitions have been devoted to\u00a0her oeuvre in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Among these are shows at the Palazzo Fortuny in\u00a0Venice, at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, at the Institut Valenci\u00e0 d\u2019Art Modern (IVAM) in Valencia, at\u00a0the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San\u00a0Diego, at Paris Photo, and at the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles.<\/p>\n Robert Wilson<\/strong> is among the world\u2019s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage\u00a0unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting,\u00a0sculpture, music, and text.\u00a0In 1970, Wilson created Deafman Glance<\/em>, his first signature work. With Philip Glass he wrote the\u00a0seminal opera Einstein on the Beach<\/em> (1976). He is best known for his collaborations with writers and\u00a0musicians: Heiner M\u00fcller, William Burroughs, and Lou Reed. Wilson\u2019s productions and innovative uses\u00a0of time, light, and space on stage have won the acclaim of audiences and critics internationally. Wilson\u00a0has been honored with a number of awards for excellence, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, the\u00a0Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, and an Olivier Award. Wilson is the founder and Artistic Director\u00a0of The Watermill Center, a laboratory for the arts in Water Mill, New York.<\/p>\n Serge Linar\u00e8s<\/strong> is a professor of twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature at the Sorbonne\u00a0Nouvelle University (Paris 3). As a Jean Cocteau specialist, he was the editor of Cocteau\u2019s collected\u00a0novels (\u0152uvres romanesques compl\u00e8tes<\/em>) in the \u201cBiblioth\u00e8que de la Pl\u00e9iade\u201d series in 2006. He has also\u00a0written two studies about the writer and artist: Jean Cocteau: le grave et l\u2019aigu<\/em> (1999) and Cocteau: La\u00a0ligne d\u2019un style<\/em> (2000). Interested in the relationships between literature and art, he has published\u00a0\u00c9crivains artistes: La tentation plastique (XXe<\/sup> et XXIe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle)<\/em> (2010), Fenosa, la sculpture et les lettres<\/em>\u00a0(2011), and Picasso et les \u00e9crivains<\/em> (2013). His research on the spatialization of poetic texts has recently\u00a0led to the publication of his Po\u00e9sie en partage: Sur Pierre Reverdy et Andr\u00e9 du Bouchet<\/em> (2018).<\/p>\n Philippe Piguet<\/strong> is a historian, art critic, and independent curator of exhibitions. He has been\u00a0responsible for organizing exhibitions at the Chapelle-Espace d\u2019art contemporain, in Thonon-les-Bains,\u00a0since 2008, and is the artistic director of the Normandie Impressionniste Festival for 2020. He has\u00a0contributed regularly to the review Art Absolument<\/em> since 2002 and occasionally to artpress<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sylviane Dupuis<\/strong> is a Swiss poet, playwright, essayist, and critic. She was a lecturer in Swiss\u00a0francophone literature in the Modern French Department of the University of Geneva between 2004\u00a0and 2018. Her many publications comprise seven books of poetry, including Creuser la nuit<\/em> (winner of\u00a0the C.F. 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