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…
This is one of Magritte’s most famous paintings, to be read like an enigmatic comic book in six squares…
In the winter, we shall travel in a little pink railway carriage…
Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.
Does this bright yellow transnational emoji population symbolising our daily emotions and putting things into pictures allow new propositions?
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.
As an accessory for the worldly woman, the Minaudiere has become popularised without becoming trivialised in the process.
Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was dear to the heart of the founders of diptyque.
Emojis are these ideograms and smileys used in the world of modern digital communication: they tell at least as much as they show…
It is Eros that rules the rose from the very outset and across all frontiers…
The language of birds will make hear something that is at odds with what has been written…
In the first row of the orchestra at the concert hall, the « inventor » of concrete music slips behind a mixing desk with rotating potentiometers…
WIthout a rose, Beast would have never met Beauty, whom made him beautiful anew.
Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)
The cemetery of trees has become an area of art…
In the diptyque tradition of the present, colors are nothing without folding.
What hides behind the apparent simplicity of his drawings and his “pop” paintings is a deeply committed art.
Shadow is something – it weaves light, it links elements together, its vibrations and variations adorn the volumes of silence surrounded by the bare walls.
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.
It’s likely that no other country than Japan ever created such a traditional art of fragrant smoke.
The rose and its perfume are standing here, just between evocative associations, lost memories and truth.
Legendary theater and movie actor Louis Jouvet remembers the times when gaz lamps were in use for theater stage lighting.
Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.
Correspondences and synaesthesia…
Zelij is in harmony with the eau de parfum Oud Palao for its beauty as well as for its compatibility with diptyque’s history.
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.
“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.