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)
12.25.2017 Praises of pliages
“Hantaï’s paintings, where pliage (folding) is utilised as a genuine method, found an echo with Didi-Huberman.” (Soko Phay)
11.17.2017 The vanished fresco
The battle of Anghiari, an unfinished fresco from Leonardo Da Vinci, dazed those who saw it until it became invisible.
08.14.2017 What is artification?
“Painting and sculpture have not always been considered art.” (Nathalie Heinich)
10.07.2016 Patterns in modern art
Contemporary Art expert at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam analyzes the logic of patterns in Contemporary art
09.26.2016 Through the looking glass…
Beyond the traditions, myths and superstitions attributed to the mirror, it occupies a special place in our thoughts about images.
08.29.2016 Herbarium of Fontcuberta
Through Herbarium, one of his most emblematic work, the artist tackles fiction and irony to create a dynamic of doubt.
04.14.2016 Sound and color
Towards a synesthetic approach to art, from the Renaissance until the 20th century.
02.08.2016 “Rose-fever”
Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.
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.
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.
10.12.2015 Outrenoir
Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.
07.30.2015 Simon Hantaï
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.
07.23.2015 John Cage
4’33’’ is a three-movement musical composition by John Cage without a note or even a sound…
07.13.2015 Winnie Denker & the sentinel of Paris
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.
07.02.2015 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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.
06.29.2015 diptyque at the festival of Aix-en-Provence
diptyque has been an official partner of the Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art since 2011…
06.18.2015 American icons: Richard Diebenkorn
Who would recognize the city of Berkeley in this painting by Richard Diebenkorn, which dates back to 1955?
06.01.2015 Yves and the theater
Before he attempted the diptyque adventure, Yves Coueslant had been living an extraordinary life with exciting artists for twelve years across Europe…
05.28.2015 American icons: Philip Guston
Philip Guston’s dark, fun-filled, crude shapes taken from the sphere of comic strips shocked his contemporaries…
05.04.2015 American icons: Ellsworth Kelly
Through his art, Kelly has always striven to lively activate pictorial dynamics…
04.27.2015 American icons: Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly tells us a story about man’s history as much as his owns trips…
04.23.2015 The sharp blur
If clearness expresses understandability and accuracy, blurs and out of focus are rather discriminant with some blurred images being of utmost precision.
04.20.2015 The Villa Noailles
This stylish house was probably the first building of modern architecture in France, and still remains one of the greatest.
04.13.2015 Karl Blossfeldt
Elodie Morel, Sales Director for photographs at Christie’s, reflects on Karl Blossfeldt work…
04.06.2015 American icons
The Grand Palais will be hosting a part of the San Francisco Museum of Art collection.
03.16.2015 The hourglass in Death in Venice
“It seems that the sand is waiting for the very last moment to seep into the globe underneath…”