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…
02.08.2016 “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)
12.14.2015 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’.
10.01.2015 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.