02.15.2016 The treachery of images
This is one of Magritte’s most famous paintings, to be read like an enigmatic comic book in six squares…
02.11.2016 Winter pink
In the winter, we shall travel in a little pink railway carriage…
02.08.2016 “Rose-fever”
Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.
02.04.2016 ô~_~ô
Does this bright yellow transnational emoji population symbolising our daily emotions and putting things into pictures allow new propositions?
02.01.2016 Richard Mosse’s vie en rose
Richard Mosse’s work is a real challenge to the system that obliges you to believe what you see. He gives us images of beauty to speak to us of pain and of danger.
01.28.2016 Minaudière
As an accessory for the worldly woman, the Minaudiere has become popularised without becoming trivialised in the process.
01.25.2016 Stockhausen weekend
Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was dear to the heart of the founders of diptyque.
01.21.2016 >_<
Emojis are these ideograms and smileys used in the world of modern digital communication: they tell at least as much as they show…
01.18.2016 Rose of Eros…
It is Eros that rules the rose from the very outset and across all frontiers…
01.11.2016 Meaning in flight
The language of birds will make hear something that is at odds with what has been written…
01.07.2016 Symphony for one man alone
In the first row of the orchestra at the concert hall, the « inventor » of concrete music slips behind a mixing desk with rotating potentiometers…
12.31.2015 The Rose and the Beast
WIthout a rose, Beast would have never met Beauty, whom made him beautiful anew.
12.28.2015 Mondrian’s trees
Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.
12.24.2015 The gift
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)
12.21.2015 Art of trees
!["Le Pré de l’Entre-Deux" par Christian Lapie (2003 [2002]) Chênes traités à la créosote, dimensions variables, hauteur maximum 8m
Œuvre publiée dans Colette Garraud, L’Artiste contemporain et la nature, Hazan, Paris, 2007 (Provenance : Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne)](http://www.diptyqueparis-memento.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DHemery-15-1024x756.jpg)
The cemetery of trees has become an area of art…
12.14.2015 The tones of a gift
In the diptyque tradition of the present, colors are nothing without folding.
12.10.2015 Keith Haring
What hides behind the apparent simplicity of his drawings and his “pop” paintings is a deeply committed art.
11.23.2015 Golden shadow
Shadow is something – it weaves light, it links elements together, its vibrations and variations adorn the volumes of silence surrounded by the bare walls.
11.19.2015 A rough guide of Print-Making
Print-making, that is the ability to create an image and then to reproduce it exactly again and again, has been around for many centuries.
11.02.2015 The way of incense
It’s likely that no other country than Japan ever created such a traditional art of fragrant smoke.
10.29.2015 Rose d’Amour
The rose and its perfume are standing here, just between evocative associations, lost memories and truth.
10.19.2015 Happy Times of the Theater Gas Lamps!
Legendary theater and movie actor Louis Jouvet remembers the times when gaz lamps were in use for theater stage lighting.
10.12.2015 Outrenoir
Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.
10.08.2015 Correspondences
Correspondences and synaesthesia…
10.01.2015 Christiane and the Zelij
Zelij is in harmony with the eau de parfum Oud Palao for its beauty as well as for its compatibility with diptyque’s history.
09.21.2015 Mrs. Castaing
Going against all the trends, Madeleine Castaing has been one of these women of the past century whose passion and determination overcame fortresses of conformism: borrowing to all sort of styles, her taste turned upside down the art of decoration.
09.07.2015 Glass analogy
“According to advertising it’s “the raw material of the future” and being transparent is the material and ideal to be achieved” writes Jean Baudrillard and indeed, the features of glass express an ideal.