Des formes d'elle. by Noël - 21 juin 2005

Unique handwritten copy made by Bernard Noel for Els Baekelandt and Carlos Sánchez-Álamo.

The book is decorated with three gestural calligraphies in color by Els Baekelandt.

These 15 poems "were written in 1986 and 1987, [...] but have remained unpublished (except for 3 or 4 that have appeared in magazines) as a whole until now" (author's disclaimer).

Considered one of the great contemporary French poets, Bernard Noël died on April 13, at the age of 90. Friend of Georges Perros, "carrier of suitcases" at the time of the Algerian war, he was the last author censored and condemned in 1973 for outrage to morality after the publication of his Château de Cène. This immense work of the pen. Bernard Noël? "A man who sinks his teeth into the present and never accepts compromise. With his language, he opens the trap doors of the world where it is advisable in all lucidity to go and see clearly even if the way is complex and if it requires efforts", confides Charles Tordjman, his friend and stage companion. Yonnel Liégeois.
Through his poems, his stories, his plays, his historical or political books, his texts on painting, Bernard Noël is a writer of first importance whose number of readers, in France but also abroad, does not cease growing.

Writing is his life, his body, his faith. He gives himself through it without counting the cost. If he is "outside the genres" and remains unclassifiable, his originality makes that each of his pages is signed, recognizable, identifiable by a writing, a voice, a language (...) The unity of his work is however indisputable. It even defies any attempt of the critic to isolate a characteristic point of his writing.

Calligrapher, painter, graphic designer, Els Baekelandt was born in Belgium in 1963. She moved to Paris in 1986 after graduating from the Saint Luc School of Art in Ghent. She devotes much time to gestural painting and experiments with a multitude of different techniques. Former companion of the painter Claude Mediavilla, she created with her husband Carlos Sanchez Alamo, a calligraphy and bookbinding workshop.

Unique handwritten copy of these unpublished poems by Bernard Noel made for Els Baekelandt and Carlos Sanchez-Alamo, preserved in its superb binding made by Carlos Sanchez-Alamo.