Poetry and Painting: Two Exhibitions in Honor of Yves Bonnefoy
FROM APRIL TO JULY 2005, THE FRENCH CITY OF TOURS honored its native son, the poet Yves Bonnefoy, with two exhibitions of paintings related to his work: the first was devoted to books he has created together with contemporary artists, and the second to his work as an art historian and art critic. Yves Bonnefoy has long collaborated with painters and engravers, producing books meant to be not only read but treasured as art, where the words inhabit a space materialized by beautiful papers and bindings and constellated by responding images. His earliest collaborators included Raoul Ubac, Eduardo Chillida, Joan Miro, …