LOCATING
Under the title “Repérer” (Locating), this new Poetry Platform session will see the poet Jean Daive in dialogue with the art historian Guitemie Maldonado—a way of comparing the formal questioning of the issue of forms and their metamorphoses.
Jean Daive is a poet, which is to say an encyclopaedist, reporter, radio personality, photographer, translator, magazine editor, and novelist. His first book Décimale blanche (Mercure de France, 1967) represented the starting point of minimal poetry in French. The book was translated into German by Paul Celan. His work, which renews narrative forms, is organized in several cycles.
Guitemie Maldonado is an art historian, and teaches at the Paris School of Fine Arts (ENSBA). Her research has focused on Le cercle et l’amibe. Le biomorphisme dans l’art occidental des années 1930 (INHA-CTHS, 2006) Based on this analysis of the living world grappling with processes of abstractions, she is re-thinking the way abstract art and Surrealism are pigeonholed.
