Sospeso presents composer Tristan Murail's work Bois Flotté, with the videofilm by visual artist Herve Bailly-Basin, in spring 2003.

Herve Bailly-Basin was born in 1958.  He received degrees in philosophy and visual arts, and he lives and works in the area of Annecy.

His early research was devoted to painting, but in a negative sense:  seeking the figurative within the most radical abstraction.  The incompatibility between the risks of experimentation and the demands of a technically coherent production lead him to employ, at the end of the 1980s, techniques of the then nascent field of computer graphics and animation.  This "continuation of painting by other means," in Bailly-Basin's words, soon lead to the possibility of synthesizing photographed images with purely synthetic ones.  And the recording of transitory states of his compositions have produced (since 1994) sequential works that mingle digital synthesis with filmed video.

The figurative aspect of Bailly-Basin's work has recently been present in pieces of video-dance.  Currently his works, while opposed to the romantic notions of the gesamkunstwerk, nevertheless are moving towards the idea of an "intermediate art," where the essence of expression crosses between the boundaries of different sensory media.

Thanks to http://membres.lycos.fr/basin/.