An exhibition of the works of Michel Butor and twelve artists will open at the Reykjavík Arts Festival on Monday, May 26. Michel Butor is one of the leading authors of a group that revolutionized the novel in France around 1960 under the banner of the nouveau roman. Butor stopped writing novels in the 1960s. Since then, he has written a great deal of essays, poems, travelogues, and all kinds of experimental texts. For decades, he has focused on texts for visual art books, has done a number of such works with a great many visual artists, and has given lectures on visual art works widely. Therefore, it can be said that Butor's literary career is twofold, on the one hand his "former life" as a novelist and on the other his texts for visual art books, along with all kinds of other texts. The project is a collaboration between the National and University Library of Iceland, the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the University of Iceland, the French Embassy, the Alliance Française and the Reykjavík Arts Festival. The exhibition runs until August.

See more on the Reykjavík Arts Festival website.

http://www.listahatid.is/vidburdir/michel-butor-og-vinir/