12.06.2018 Key of tales
« The pain of the Earth is not to be the joy, love and life that cover our Rock of Lies. » (Satprem)
« The pain of the Earth is not to be the joy, love and life that cover our Rock of Lies. » (Satprem)
Mirrors is a tale from the book Contes des sages de l’Inde (Tales of the Indian wise men) by Martine Quentric-Séguy (© éditions du Seuil).
A story that starts with the words « Once upon a time… »
This card game invented by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt changes the rules of the game…
Alone or in a collective, French visual artist François Morellet was always affiliated with the partnership of chance.
diptyque’s vocation was to be a perfumer, but a cunning twist of fate made the swirls of perfume pass through the line of drawing.
The author of In Search of Lost Time awaits for chance to show him, once again, a life that was dead to him.
“Nothing is more glorious than to be able to give rules to things, which, being dependent on chance, seem to know none, and thereby escape human reason” (Christiaan Huygens)
Chance is only “the accidental meeting of two independent causal series” says mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot.
This ornamental accessory was worn as a necklace, bracelet or attached to a belt (depending on its size) and wasn’t so much a decorative object but worn to protect the wearer.
Although the paint tube appeared three decades before the official date given for the start of Impressionism, it was given a decisive role in the evolution of pictorial art.
Serendipity induces a heuristic method in which failure means success.
Reporter and great traveller Bernard Hermann decided to create a collection of photographs taken exclusively from his flat in Paris.
« The myth gives the finite what is missing in infinity, and what it needs from eternity. » (Lucien Jerphagnon)
For a very long time in Europe, the orange was was a rare fruit for the well-heeled.
“The beautiful gift has three features that make it stand out amongst thousands of others.” (Jean-Claude Kaufmann)
Over 48 names have been suggested for this mysterious prisoner including Louis XIV’s twin brother, or one of his sons with Louise de La Vallière, or an illegitimate son of Charles II of England, or Count Vermandois who slapped the Dauphin… And even such far-fetched theories as him being disgraced Superintendent Fouquet or D’Artagnan! Or even Molière!
What was the origin of Greek theatre that turned classical Athens into the place for expressing the art of tragedy and comedy?
And what if painting had been, in its mythical origin, the projection of the shadow of a face on a clear surface?
The mask worn by the actor addressed each person in the audience individually, it was grimacing warning.
In the Twelve Labours of Hercules, detective Hercule Poirot hopes to round off his career by solving twelve last cases.
How many Hesperides sisters are there actually? Who is their father? And where’s this garden that they inhabit?
A mask uses an image to convey the constrained expression of social hypocrisy.
Our planet Earth, as far as original Nature still covers it, is only the infinite frolicking of nymphs.
American artist James Turrell takes light back to being a sensorial experience .