Nathalie Gassel
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Nathalie Gassel is a Belgian writer and photographer. Born in Brussels, she is also known as a Muay Thai
sportsperson. She contributed to the 1999 work entitled Picturing the Modern Amazon, which was translated by Pierre Samuel
and published by New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. She has made a number of public appearances through the years and her writings have been published by the University of Brussels Review. Nathalie Gassel's writing exposes her life as an athlete and details her muscular physique and is expressed in Eros Androgyne and Musculatures. These two works celebrate the wonders of her strong body and the power she wields in this flesh of steel. Her recent and decisive writing in The Years of Insignificance probes the adversities of her torn and troubled childhood and continues to affirm her strength and radical persona. Gassel's photographic publication Récit Plastique confirms this singular and compelling universe through the eyes of a camera lens.
"In a readily traditional prose with quasi-nervous tension that vibrates constantly building intensity," describes the philosopher Frank Pierobon, "Récit Plastique recounts this through dialogue texts and photographs. This body with body, between writings and images, oscillates between instincts of life and death, leading to a marbled reflection of abstractions."
Interview of Pierre Mertens
on "Strategie d'une passion" by Thierry Génicot RTBF
Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
sportsperson. She contributed to the 1999 work entitled Picturing the Modern Amazon, which was translated by Pierre Samuel
Pierre Samuel
Pierre Samuel was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. The two-volume work Commutative Algebra that he wrote with Oscar Zariski is a classic. Other books of his covered projective geometry and algebraic number theory...
and published by New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. She has made a number of public appearances through the years and her writings have been published by the University of Brussels Review. Nathalie Gassel's writing exposes her life as an athlete and details her muscular physique and is expressed in Eros Androgyne and Musculatures. These two works celebrate the wonders of her strong body and the power she wields in this flesh of steel. Her recent and decisive writing in The Years of Insignificance probes the adversities of her torn and troubled childhood and continues to affirm her strength and radical persona. Gassel's photographic publication Récit Plastique confirms this singular and compelling universe through the eyes of a camera lens.
"In a readily traditional prose with quasi-nervous tension that vibrates constantly building intensity," describes the philosopher Frank Pierobon, "Récit Plastique recounts this through dialogue texts and photographs. This body with body, between writings and images, oscillates between instincts of life and death, leading to a marbled reflection of abstractions."
Interview of Pierre Mertens
Pierre Mertens
Pierre Mertens is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir.Influenced by Franz Kafka, Mertens started to publish...
on "Strategie d'une passion" by Thierry Génicot RTBF
RTBF
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone is the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium...
French bibliography
- Eros androgyne, Éditions Le Cercle poche, 2001, preface by Pierre Bourgeade
- Musculatures, Les Éditions Le Cercle, Paris, 2001 ; Editions, Le Cercle poche, 2005, preface by Sarane AlexandrianSarane AlexandrianSarane Alexandrian was a French philosopher, essayist, and art critic. He served as the last secretary of surrealist André Breton. Alexandrian was an advocate of the philosophy Nietzsche advanced in The Gay Science...
- Stratégie d'une passion, Éditions Luce Wilquin, 2004
- Construction d'un corps pornographique, Éditions Le Cercle d'Art, Paris, 2005, Paris, 2005
- Des années d'insignifiance, Éditions Luce Wilquin, 2006
- Récit plastique, texts and photographs, Éditions Le somnambule équivoque, 2008
- Abattement", Editions Maelström, Bruxelles, 2009
Reviews and collectives
- Picturing the modern amazon Newmuseumbooks, Rizzoli International Publications, New York. 1999.
- Le Labyrinthe des apparences Ed. Complexe. 2000. Université de Bruxelles.
- Je t'aime. Question d'époque Ed. Complexe. 2002. Université de Bruxelles.
- Argent, valeurs et valeur Ed. Complexe. 2004. Université de Bruxelles.
- L'obscénité des sentiments, Ed. Le Cercle d'Art & Université de Bruxelles, 2005.
- Théorie et pratique de la création, Les Cahiers internationaux du symbolisme. 2005
- La visite est terminée, photographie et texte, Ed. La Trame, Bruxelles, 2006
- Marginales, n° 262, Sous les clichés la rage, photographie, 2006 Ed. Luce Wilquin, Belgique
- Action Poétique, n° 185 , Belges et Belges, septembre 2006, Paris.
- Mode, photographie et texte, ed. Le Cercle d'art & Université de Bruxelles, Paris, 2008
External links
- Nathalie Gassel aux Editions Cercle d'art
- Nathalie Gassel Communauté française de Belgique
- Communauté Française de Belgique
- Nathalie Gassel extract Google