![]() ![]() ![]() This fictionalised portrait of Guibert’s theorist Michel Foucault was also a reflection of the artist’s own experience of the disease that ultimately led to his death in 1991, aged just 35. His diaristic book À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie ( To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life), which was recently translated and published by Semiotext(e), transformed France’s attitude to AIDS. Originally an actor and director, he was a prolific photographer, the first photographic columnist at Le Monde, as well as a novelist, penning more than 25 books over the course of his career. Guibert did not restrict himself to one medium. Freud’s fundamental human drives Eros and Thanatos are both equally present in the photography and writing of Hervé Guibert, who is quite possibly the most interesting artist exploring desire to have been forgotten in the past 30 years – and the subject of an exciting new exhibition at Felix Gaudlitz in Vienna. ![]()
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