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)
11.23.2018 Mirrors
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).
11.09.2018 What’s a fairytale?
A story that starts with the words « Once upon a time… »
10.26.2018 Oblique Strategies
This card game invented by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt changes the rules of the game…
10.22.2018 The rigorous joker
Alone or in a collective, French visual artist François Morellet was always affiliated with the partnership of chance.
10.15.2018 Fragrant drawings
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.
10.12.2018 The chance or Mr. Proust
The author of In Search of Lost Time awaits for chance to show him, once again, a life that was dead to him.
10.08.2018 The promises of chance
“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)
09.24.2018 Chance, what chance?
Chance is only “the accidental meeting of two independent causal series” says mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot.
09.14.2018 Pomander
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.
09.10.2018 Paint tube
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.
09.07.2018 Serendipity
Serendipity induces a heuristic method in which failure means success.
08.31.2018 Bernard Hermann – Paris, km 00
Reporter and great traveller Bernard Hermann decided to create a collection of photographs taken exclusively from his flat in Paris.
08.27.2018 Origin of myths
« The myth gives the finite what is missing in infinity, and what it needs from eternity. » (Lucien Jerphagnon)
08.20.2018 The tribulations of the orange
For a very long time in Europe, the orange was was a rare fruit for the well-heeled.
08.17.2018 Ithaka
08.13.2018 Gift giving
“The beautiful gift has three features that make it stand out amongst thousands of others.” (Jean-Claude Kaufmann)
08.10.2018 The iron mask
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!
08.06.2018 The origins of tragedy and comedy
What was the origin of Greek theatre that turned classical Athens into the place for expressing the art of tragedy and comedy?
08.03.2018 “The Orange blind”
07.30.2018 Painting: in the eye of the myth
And what if painting had been, in its mythical origin, the projection of the shadow of a face on a clear surface?
07.27.2018 The mask of Tragedy
The mask worn by the actor addressed each person in the audience individually, it was grimacing warning.
07.20.2018 Green apples and little grey cells
In the Twelve Labours of Hercules, detective Hercule Poirot hopes to round off his career by solving twelve last cases.
07.16.2018 Hesperia, Hesperides
How many Hesperides sisters are there actually? Who is their father? And where’s this garden that they inhabit?
07.13.2018 The comedy of masks
A mask uses an image to convey the constrained expression of social hypocrisy.
07.09.2018 Nymphs
Our planet Earth, as far as original Nature still covers it, is only the infinite frolicking of nymphs.
06.29.2018 James Turrell : the matter of colour
American artist James Turrell takes light back to being a sensorial experience .