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As part of the Patti Smith Poetry Dayorganised by the Centre Pompidou, the French Academy in Rome is offering an evening dedicated to the poet René Daumal (1908-1944).
The work of Patti Smith, a New York singer-songwriter, poet and painter, is largely influenced by poetic writing, and René Daumal is one of her favourite authors.
Le travail de Patti Smith, autrice-compositrice, poète et peintre new-yorkaise, est largement influencé par l’écriture poétique, et René Daumal fait partie de ses auteurs favoris.
Boris Bergmann, writer and former resident of the Villa Medici, will present the Gallimard edition of Daumal’s novel Le Mont Analogue, with a preface by Patti Smith. This cult book, written between 1939 and 1944, remained unfinished but remains a reference for a whole generation of creators and artists, from Roberto Calasso to Franco Battiato.
This presentation will be followed by a reading, in French and Italian, of Daumal’s texts to plunge into the heart of the poet’s voice.
BIOGRAPHY
Boris Bergmann
Boris Bergmann was born in Paris in 1992. He is a former fellow of Villa Medici (2017-2018), and has published five novels.
At the age of 15, Boris Bergmann published his first book, Viens là que je te tue ma belle (Scali editions), which received the Prix de Flore du lycéen in 2007. He published his second novel, 1000 Mensonges (Denoël editions) in January 2010. After several years of literary studies, readings at the Fondation Cartier and publications in various magazines, Boris Bergmann returned with his third novel, Déserteur (published by Calmann Lévy) in September 2016. His latest, Les Corps insurgés (Calmann-Lévy, September 2020), was awarded the Félix Fénéon prize.
He has been co-curator of the exhibition Monts analogues at the FRAC Champagne Ardenne (from 17 September to 23 December 2021), which brought together archival material and works by artists inspired by René Daumal and the novel of the same name. He directed the new edition of the novel Le Mont Analogue which was published in October 2021 by Gallimard.
Cosima Bucarelli
Cosima Bucarelli is a Roman multidisciplinary artist whose work includes jewellery, sculptures, performances, videos, installations, drawings and paintings.
She started as a writer, in Italy for the magazine Anna and in Germany for Welt-Am-Sonntag, before co-founding and running the magazine #Horst und Edeltraut from 2009 to 2015.
She studied jewellery making, in Italy and Thailand, and began to experiment with material and movement through the function and form of jewellery. In 2017, her designs were selected by W Magazine as part of the “new guard of young designers”.
After completing her art studies under Sergio Sarra and assisting the artist Rolf Sachs in Rome, Cosima Bucarelli dedicates herself to her creations in her studio in the Tuscan countryside.
