Guillaume de Sardes
Guillaume de Sardes, is a writer, a photographer, an historian of art and a French curator. He was born on 14 April 1979. As a literary critic, he collaborates with magazines like ', Edwarda, and literary newspapers like '. He is the editor of .
Biography
His first novel, Giovanni Pico, published in 2007, is devoted to the humanist Jean Pic de la Mirandole. He makes of him a Nietzschean figure and develops a really classic and light style. He obtained the Prix Ulysse for this work.La Dernière passion de Son Éminence , is an ironic and light novel. It was inspired by a real news story, on which the lawyer :fr:Jacques Vergès|Jacques Vergès worked: a triple murder that took place in the :fr:Vatican|Vatican in 1998. Action is however transposed in 1939. By its tone and its construction, La dernière passion de Son Éminence recalls libertine novels of the eighteenth century. Son éminence en rose et blanc uses the same characters. The plot is pure fantasy this time, although the context of the Vatican and fascist Italy is always really worked. Released in 2009, Le Nil est froid explores the themes of war, obsessions and of artistic creation. It has for backdrop, the :fr:Campagne d'Égypte|Egyptian Campaign. Latest novel to date, Le Dédain explores the different ways of loving in contemporary Paris.
Alongside his work as a novelist, Guillaume de Sardes is one of the best specialists of Russian Ballets. He has written a biography of :fr:Vaslav Nijinski|Vaslav Nijinsky, edited and translated the Memoirs of :fr:Serge de Diaghilev|Serge Diaghilev.
His work as a photographer and a videographer, regularly exhibited in France and abroad, covers the themes of the intimate, wandering and night.
His work as a photographer and a videographer, regularly exhibited in France and abroad, covers the themes of the intimate, wandering and night.
Artworks
; Novels- Giovanni Pico, Paris, Hermann, 2007
- La Dernière passion de Son Éminence, Paris, Hermann, 2008
- Le Nil est froid, Paris, Hermann, 2009
- Son Éminence en rose-et-blanc, Paris, Grasset, 2011
- Le Dédain, Paris, Grasset, 2012
- Nijinski, sa vie, son geste, sa pensée, Paris Hermann, 2006.
Editing and text translation
- Memoirs of Serge Diaghilev
- "New territories", with Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, Henry Roy, presentation by Dominique Baqué, Paris, 2014
Photography exhibits
- Paris-Tokyo aller-retour, 2015, Paris, Maison de la culture du Japon.
- "Vie secrètes", 2015, Tirana, TULLA culture center.
- Possession immédiate , 2015, Paris, galerie 24B.
- MTAG goupshow, 2014, Paris, More Than A Gallery.
- "Vies secrètes", 2014, Paris, Myriam Bouagal Gallery
- New territories, 2014, Beyrouth, Gathering/Institut français.