06.25.2018 The inferno of colours by Yves Klein
« My aim is to extract and obtain traces of the immediate in natural objects » (Yves Klein) : flames are an immediate phenomenon that will leave a trace on canvas.
06.22.2018 Blue flower
The usual French phrase « blue flower », of a soppy romanticism, is the descendant from the blue flower of the poet Novalis (1772-1801).
06.18.2018 The flamboyance of Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk’s flamboyant Fifties melodramas signalled the dawn of a Hollywood genre, where an explosion of colour on screen overloaded the eye.
06.11.2018 The history of the colour blue
This article presents a summary of the profound and scholarly work of historian and expert on colour Michel Pastoureau : Blue, History of a colour.
06.01.2018 Paris roof tops
Paris roof tops is the name of a series of photographs made by Michael Wolf, presented on memento with his kind permission.
05.21.2018 Colours of the rising sun
Over a thousand years and more, Japanese culture has honed a chromatic sensitivity to infinite gradations.
05.18.2018 Oyédo
Eau Oyédo merges two diptyque favourites: Japan and a bright citrus scent.
05.14.2018 It takes three colours to trick two eyes
By using additive synthesis of these three colours in all possible proportions, one can obtain the whole spectrum of copiable colours.
04.30.2018 Love and Psyche
The perfume Fleur de Peau, with its tone of musk comes with the perfume Tempo (with a tone of patchouli) to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of diptque perfumery which dates back to 1968, when psychedelia was in full swing.
03.12.2018 Scientific horizons in the Sixties
The sixties also remain familiar to us because our current era is still evolving technically, conceptually and culturally as a result of what began back then.
03.05.2018 The hippie and the liberalism
The limiting experience of an LSD trip desired by the wayward teen and the mystical ecstasy experienced by the devout as a result of faith and fasting were readily believed to be of the same nature.
02.23.2018 The fold
The fold is both the act of divison and a border of reunion.
02.19.2018 The Luddites
By breaking the looms to defend noble and well-made work, the Luddites protected their jobs, their skills, their status as well as attacking the control that the mechanisation of labour engendered on their gestures, bodies, rhythms and the links between them, splitting them by dividing their work, on everything that constituted them as a collective body.
02.12.2018 Le Gray, the Egyptian
There is some mystery surrounding the circumstances that seem to have led Le Gray towards the port of Alexandria…
02.05.2018 Indian cottons
The word indiennes refers to cotton fabric, usually thin and lightweight with bright cheerful prints.
02.02.2018 Jean-Baptiste Huet
Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811) was an artist. He excelled at painting animals and nature. His name has gone down in history for the motifs he painted for the Oberkampf factory textiles called toiles de Jouy.
01.29.2018 Turkish Delight
With the Rose Delight fragrance blending rose and louloum, associations of ideas spread like a sugar trail: Turkish Delight (Loukoum) is the title of a 1973 film by Paul Verhoeven.
01.22.2018 A rose
A poem from American poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
01.19.2018 Rahat loukoum (Turkish delight)
Popular tradition has associated loukoum with lovers.
01.15.2018 Orientalism
The illustration of Rose Delight, blending the toile de Jouy with oriental images, leads memento to address the theme of “orientalism”…
01.05.2018 Mystical Turkish delight
ould an innocent pistachio loukoum (Turkish delight) conceal the gateway to Divinity?
12.29.2017 Orion
The constellation of Orion rounds off memento’s starry cycle and reveals the luminous nebulae of blessings that we wish to shower upon you all for the coming new year!
12.15.2017 Constellations
A constellation groups together all the stars that are within the perimeters more or less delimited by its symbolic asterism.
11.17.2017 The vanished fresco
The battle of Anghiari, an unfinished fresco from Leonardo Da Vinci, dazed those who saw it until it became invisible.
11.13.2017 The Unicorn of stars
The Unicorn constellation…
11.06.2017 The first of Ovid’s metamorphoses
« Hidden for eons under the mass that squashed them suddenly begin to swarm in the night skies » (Ovid)
11.03.2017 The passion of heaven…
The passion of heaven, a poem of Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552-1630) opens the theme of the constellations on memento.