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02.26.2018 Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto 6 Muro di stracci (Wall of Rags), 1968
Crossed paths

“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

Simon Hantaï, 1980 (collection Jean-François et Marie-Aline Prat, Christie's Paris, © Christie's images, 2017)
Crossed paths

“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

Léonard de Vinci (1452-1519) - Tête d'un guerrier ('le chef rouge ') - étude pour la bataille d'Anghiari, 1504-5, Musée des arts fins, Budapest
Along the way

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?

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori, 1503-1572), Portrait d'homme tenant une statuette (l'identité du sculpteur Baccio Bandinelli est contestée, mais le modèle était probablement un sculpteur), Musée du Louvre.
Along the way

“Painting and sculpture have not always been considered art.” (Nathalie Heinich)

10.07.2016 Patterns in modern art

François Morellet (1926-2016), 4 doubles trames 0°-22°5-45°-67°5, 1958. Copyright : © Christie’s images, 2016
Crossed paths

Contemporary Art expert at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam analyzes the logic of patterns in Contemporary art

09.26.2016 Through the looking glass…

Brassaï, « Chez Suzy », vers 1932, MNAM
Crossed paths

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

lavandula angustifolia, photographie de Joan Fontcuberta  
(© Joan Fontcuberta)
Crossed paths

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

La symphonie printanière, 1936 (Henry Valensi, 1883-1960)
Crossed paths

Towards a synesthetic approach to art, from the Renaissance until the 20th century.

02.08.2016 “Rose-fever”

"Pelleas et Melisande", 1927 (Erté, 1892-1990) (© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York)
Along the way

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 - Platon, 2012 (digital c-print dimensions variable) ©Richard Mosse.  Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Along the way

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

Les quatre cavaliers de l'Apocalypse, extrait de L'Apocalypse, 1497-98 (Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528)
Along the way

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

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 136 x 136 cm, 24 décembre 1990. Copyright: © Christie's Images, 2015.
Along the way

Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.

07.30.2015 Simon Hantaï

Simon Hantaï (1922-2008), Sans titre, aquarelle sur toile libre, 1971. © Christie’s images, 2015.
Along the way

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

John Cage (1912-1992) en 1988.
Along the way

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

© Winnie Denker
Along the way

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

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Crossed paths

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

Festival Aix - diptyque - 1
Crossed paths

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

Diebenkorn, Richard, Berkeley #47 , 1955,
Copyright et Credit photo
© The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. Photo
SFMOMA
Crossed paths

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

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Along the way

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

Guston, Philip, Evidence , 1970,
Copyright et Credit photo:
© Estate of Philip Guston. Photo SFMOMA / Ben
Blackwell
Crossed paths

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

Kelly, Ellsworth, Cité , 1951, Copyright et Credit photo: ©Ellsworth Kelly. Photo SFMOMA / Ben Blackwell.
Crossed paths

Through his art, Kelly has always striven to lively activate pictorial dynamics…

04.27.2015 American icons: Cy Twombly

Twombly, Cy Second Voyage to Italy (Second
Version),  1962
Copyright et Credit photo:
© Cy Twombly Foundation. Photo SFMOMA
Crossed paths

Cy Twombly tells us a story about man’s history as much as his owns trips…

04.23.2015 The sharp blur

© Terri Weifenbach
Shadow of scents

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

Villa Noailles. Vue de l'escalier de la piscine. Photographe : Thérèse Bonney.
Along the way

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

Adiantum pedatum (Karl Blossfeldt,1928)
Along the way

Elodie Morel, Sales Director for photographs at Christie’s, reflects on Karl Blossfeldt work…

04.06.2015 American icons

afficheicones
Crossed paths

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

Mort à Venise - affiche du film
Along the way

“It seems that the sand is waiting for the very last moment to seep into the globe underneath…”

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