Yearly Archives: 2013

Doctor in Humanities, Gérard Régnier studied philosophy and history of art, first at the Sorbonne, then at the Harvard University (USA). In 1966, he was appointed curator of the Museums of France at the National Museum of Modern Art, then he joined the Georges Pompidou Centre from 1980 to 1989. In 1989, he was appointed chief curator of the heritage and director of the National Picasso Museum. It is also, under the name of Jean Clair, the author of monographs on Bonnard, Balthus, Cartier-Bresson, Duchamp, Giacometti, Music, Picasso, Szafran, and numerous essays and literary works. He is a regular contributor to the following journals: “Nouvelle Revue Française”, “Le Débat”, “Commentaire”, “La Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse”, “FMR”, etc.

Guillemette Bolens holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Geneva. She spent a year at Cornell University on a research fellowship. She taught Medieval English Literature as an assistant and “maître-assistante” before being appointed full professor at the University of Geneva in 2005. Her research interests are in the history of the body and corporeal logics in classical, medieval, and contemporary literatures. Her current research project focuses on kinesics and the analysis of gestures, postures, movements, and facial expressions in visual and verbal arts. This interdisciplinary project links the fields of narratology and rhetoric (in literature), gesture studies (in sociology and anthropology), action understanding (in philosophy and psychology), embodied cognition (in neuroscience), and kinesthetic semiotics (in dance theory).

Born in 1955 in Nancy (France), Pascal Dusapin studied Plastic Arts and Sciences, Arts and Aesthetic at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He followed the seminars given by Iannis Xenakis between 1974 and 1978, and was scholar at the Villa Medici in Roma (1981-1983). He has been conferred many honors since the beginning of his career, among them: in 1994, the Symphonic Prize of the SACEM; in 1995, the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the National Great Prize of Music and then the “Victoire de la Musique” was awarded to him in 2002 as “Composer of the Year”. He was awarded the 2005 Cino del Duca prize from the French Academy des Beaux-Arts. Raised to the rank of “Commandeur des Arts & Lettres”, elected at the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in July 2006 and nominated professor at the College de France to hold the artistic creation chair for 2006/2007. He has composed many pieces for ensemble, for orchestra and mainly for soloists and chamber music.