Reading and screening at the Galerie Depardieu, this Saturday, May 3rd at 6:15 PM with three speakers: Béatrice Bonhomme-Villani, Bérénice Bonhomme, and Stello Bonhomme-Villani.
<img43549|left> Béatrice Bonhomme-Villani, poet, journal director, Professor at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis in 20th-century French Literature, created in 2003 a research division dedicated to poetry, POIEMA, within the CTEL (Transdisciplinary Center for Epistemology of Literature and Performing Arts), a center she directed from 2007 to 2012. She founded with Hervé Bosio in 1994 the journal Nu(e), a poetry and art journal, which has to date devoted 55 issues to the works of contemporary poets and she directs The Society of Pierre Jean Jouve Readers. She has published numerous articles and critical works on modern and contemporary poetry. Among her recent critical works are: Memory and Paths to the World (a study that serves as a tribute to many contemporary poets) (Melis, 2009), Pierre Jean Jouve or the Inner Quest (Aden, 2009). Béatrice Bonhomme has also published books of poems. Some of the latest titles include: Mutilation of a Tree (Collodion, 2008), Passing of the Light (L’Arrière-Pays, 2008), The Precariousness of Light (La Rivière échappée, La Canopée, 2009), Variations of the Face and the Rose (L’Arrière-Pays, 2014). A book on the work of Béatrice Bonhomme was published in 2013 by Peter Lang by Ilda Tomas and Peter Collier: The Word, Death, Love. One of her plays, The End of Eternity, was staged in 2009 in Granada by Rafaël Ruiz.
Bérénice Bonhomme is a Lecturer in Cinema at the University Toulouse II le Mirail (ESAV). Also a specialist in editing and projectionist, she is a member of the research laboratory LARA. Following her thesis, she wrote several books on the relationships between Claude Simon and cinema. She contributed to the annotation of the second volume of the Pléiade Claude Simon with David Zemmour and under the direction of Alastair Duncan. Currently, she is reflecting on images and imagination and on cinematographic technique and its relation to creation. She recently published Cinema Techniques (Dixit, 2010) and is developing a research project on French cinematographers and their relationship with digital media. She has edited and directed several films, including The Taste of Ink and Happening.
Stello Bonhomme-Villani has presented numerous exhibitions and collaborated with several contemporary poets for artist books, including Bernard Vargaftig, Régis Lefort, Béatrice Bonhomme, and Marie-Claire Bancquart. In 2010, he presented in Nice a solo exhibition titled The Imprint of a Fold, which was a reflection on the act of painting and was followed by several exhibitions in France and particularly in Paris. Since then, he has dedicated his work as a painter to the question of the impoverished image and the boundary between abstraction and illustration through the prism of anatomy. His works on canvas, paper, or glass extend beyond the framework of the painting and are complemented by cinematographic and computer activities. Stello Bonhomme-Villani is also a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Nice, where he prepares a thesis (Illusions of Acting, the Videogame Representation) under the direction of Carole Talon-Hugon. His research focuses on contemporary aesthetics and more specifically on the status of images at the dawn of new technologies.
