12.21.2018 Light for children
“Time is of the essence, minutes are counted in the studio where Walter Benjamin will soon tell his story, breathing new life into old orality, archaic narrative…” (Maylis de Kerangal)
10.31.2018 The Legend of the North
A winter fairytale dreamt up by Pierre Marie and Ahmed Terbaoui will be accompanying and illustrating our Winter 2018 Collection…
10.19.2018 Gerhard Richter & chance
“Richter’s response to the challenge posed was to extend the principle of polychrome charts to fit the monumental scale of the Cathedral. ” (Paul Nyzam)
10.05.2018 John Cage, or chance as a discipline
“Cage introduced chance in order to discover the sounds as themselves, free of any intentionality of writing, any subjectivity.” (Karine le Bail)
10.01.2018 Au hasard Balthazar
3But Bresson’s donkey is not a character, through its gaze and its suffering, it demonstrates the hopeless struggle of the protagonists, dealing with their pride, their greed, their sensuality. (Françoise Zammour)
09.28.2018 Chance and Serendipity of Guy Debord
” Situationists suggest going against the flow of dominant urbanism that is outside the emotional sensitivity of men.” (Corinne Melin )
09.17.2018 A throw of the dice
“In his A throw of the Dice, Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionised poetry just as Picasso did with painting ten years later with his Les Demoiselles d’Avignon( Eric Marty)
07.23.2018 Amphitryon
“The spectator, familiar with this intrigue, enjoys the confusion caused by this game of doubles.” (Eve Mascarau)
07.02.2018 Target man
“This is one of the first Surrealist paintings – a word that didn’t exist when the piece of work was painted.” (Paul Nyzam)
06.15.2018 View of Delft
French Writer and art historian Pascal Bonafoux, author of a monography about painter Johannes Vermeer, offers memento his analysis of a famous passage from ‘In Search of Lost Time’ of Marcel Proust.
06.08.2018 Daniel Boudinet : le temps de la couleur
Daniel Boudinet : le temps de la couleur. This exhibition of photography will run from 16th June to 10th October 2018 at Jeu de Paume museum in Paris.
05.28.2018 Alfredo Pirri’s colour-landscape
“The landscape of colour is the desire of painting to extend into space by the process of reverberation.” (Soko Phay)
05.25.2018 Listening in colour
« the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)
05.11.2018 diptyque questionnaire: the Carnovsky
Artists-designers Carnovsky have joined diptyque for the animation of the Garden of the Hesperides.
05.04.2018 The New Realists
“These artists agreed to push the classical boundaries of works of art […]” (Isaline Bouchet)
04.27.2018 PROVOKE
“For the members of Provoke, it was now necessary to remove photography from its ideological and factual straitjacket” (Diane Dufour)
04.23.2018 The minimalist music
“The concept of “minimal music” evolved during the Seventies, but it originated in the early Sixties…” (Jean-Yves Bosseur)
04.20.2018 Mass for today
“For the first time at the Avignon Festival, dance hit all the buttons.” (Karine Le Bail)
04.16.2018 Paris, I love you!
diptyque is opening a new store at 330-332 Rue Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris
04.13.2018 Four lads of the sixties
“The Sixties were therefore the era of the Beatles.” (Julia Kerninon)
04.09.2018 “Arnulf Rainer”, of Peter Kubelka
“Austrian artist Peter Kubelka revolutionised moving images ” (Jonathan Pouthier)
04.06.2018 diptyque questionnaire: Safia Ouares
Illustrator and director Safia Ouares, an artist with a wealth of multidisciplinary knowledge, gave the new perfume Tempo its image and evocative associations…
04.02.2018 Ed Ruscha
“Ed Ruscha has produced paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and films that often reference the city’s architecture, urban landscape, and car culture.” (Marla Hamburg Kennedy)
03.30.2018 The New Wave
” They followed this theory with vigour: in the cinema, the real author is the director.” (Françoise Zamour)
03.26.2018 Drawings from Henri Michaux
“The Belgian writer, who became a French citizen at that time, was to recall the experience with a new twist, midway between the written word and the medium of drawing.” (Paul Nyzam)
03.23.2018 diptyque questionnaire: Dimitri Rybaltchenko
Dimitri Rybaltchenko has joined forces with diptyque to give visual life to the fragrance Fleur de Peau which celebrates (along with fragrance Tempo) diptyque’s 50th anniversary in the world of perfume.
03.19.2018 “The People’s cause”
“One of the images taken by young photographer Bruno Barbey shows exactly the freedom of expression that Sartre, with Simone de Beauvoir by his side, are in the process of defending in a dynamic way” (Nathalie Parienté)