For thirty years, Heinz Peter Knes has developed a large body of work, focusing on photographic-documentary practice that seeks to engage image with society. Reflecting on the multiple “correspondences”, influences and interactions at the heart of his artistic work, we travel with him through the five chapters of this book, crossing paths with Josef Winkler, Hervé Guibert, Pasolini, Moyra Davey, Julie Ault, Jean-Luc Moulène, Danh Vo, Artaud and many others. Creating a new language, a sort of echo, as sensitive experience, which in a way dematerialize our perceptions, but enable “to gather” them.

Antonin Artaud, was a French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director. Considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern drama theory, most critics believe that Artaud’s most noted contribution to drama theory is his “theater of cruelty,” an intense theatrical experience that combined elaborate props, magic tricks, special lighting, primitive gestures and articulations, along with themes of torture and murder to shock the audience into confronting the base elements of life.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: works on paper at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3 October, 1996–7 January, 1997. An exhibition of seventy drawings, mostly from the 1940s, by the French literary figure and pioneer of the theatre.

You can view a pdf of the exhibition catalogue here.