02.26.2018 Pistoletto
“Muretti di Stracci laid one of the first stones in what art critic Germano Celant would dub Arte povera. ” (Paul Nyzam)
“Muretti di Stracci laid one of the first stones in what art critic Germano Celant would dub Arte povera. ” (Paul Nyzam)
“Hantaï’s paintings, where pliage (folding) is utilised as a genuine method, found an echo with Didi-Huberman.” (Soko Phay)
The battle of Anghiari, an unfinished fresco from Leonardo Da Vinci, dazed those who saw it until it became invisible.
“Painting and sculpture have not always been considered art.” (Nathalie Heinich)
Contemporary Art expert at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam analyzes the logic of patterns in Contemporary art
Beyond the traditions, myths and superstitions attributed to the mirror, it occupies a special place in our thoughts about images.
Through Herbarium, one of his most emblematic work, the artist tackles fiction and irony to create a dynamic of doubt.
Towards a synesthetic approach to art, from the Renaissance until the 20th century.
Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.
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.
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.
Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.
In the early sixties, Simon Hantaï, of Hungarian origin, did one of the most innovative artistic gestures of the second half of the 20th century.
4’33’’ is a three-movement musical composition by John Cage without a note or even a sound…
Photographer Winnie Denker knows the Eiffel Tower better than anyone. Writer Françoise Sagan hated this iron structure until seeing Winnie’s photographs. She then wrote the text to the photographer’s first book The Sentinel of Paris which was dedicated to the Tower.
Since 2012, diptyque has set up an ephemeral scenography for its opening ceremony. This year, this setting of ambiance which will be arranged in the jardin Campra for the “A Midsummer Night’s Dream » new premiere will be kept in place throughout the Festival.
diptyque has been an official partner of the Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art since 2011…
Who would recognize the city of Berkeley in this painting by Richard Diebenkorn, which dates back to 1955?
Before he attempted the diptyque adventure, Yves Coueslant had been living an extraordinary life with exciting artists for twelve years across Europe…
Philip Guston’s dark, fun-filled, crude shapes taken from the sphere of comic strips shocked his contemporaries…
Through his art, Kelly has always striven to lively activate pictorial dynamics…
Cy Twombly tells us a story about man’s history as much as his owns trips…
If clearness expresses understandability and accuracy, blurs and out of focus are rather discriminant with some blurred images being of utmost precision.
This stylish house was probably the first building of modern architecture in France, and still remains one of the greatest.
Elodie Morel, Sales Director for photographs at Christie’s, reflects on Karl Blossfeldt work…
The Grand Palais will be hosting a part of the San Francisco Museum of Art collection.
“It seems that the sand is waiting for the very last moment to seep into the globe underneath…”