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by diptyque paris

  • Shadow of scents
  • Crossed paths
  • Along the way

07.15.2016 Black Narcissus

le-narcisse-noir
Along the way

The title of the film comes from the name of the 1911 perfume Black Narcissus by the House of Caron.

05.09.2016 Voyage around my room

Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852), gravure de Cyprien Jacquemin
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« So that’s how come I’m learning lessons about philosophy and humanity from my servant and my dog during my voyage. » (Xavier de Maistre)

03.10.2016 “Turn me on”

Jean Tinguely, Swiss made, éléments métalliques mobiles et mécanisme d’horlogerie, 1961. Ancienne collection Dagny et Jan Christie’s. Courtesy Christie’s Inc. © Christies images, 2016.
Crossed paths

Kinetic art reached its peak in 1965 when MoMA organised an exhibition that would go down in history: « The responsive eye ». When announced a year earlier in the press, an American journalist coined the phrase Op Art for the first time – a term that would achieve posterity.

03.07.2016 A seer’s vowels

Manuscrit du poème "Voyelles" d'Arthur Rimbaud
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«A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels, » is a verse of typical synaesthetic association, made by a poet who was seer.

02.18.2016 Salutary rebus

Sainte-Chapelle du Palais, Paris (vitrail, détail)
Along the way

The stained glass windows of the Gothic cathedrals (from the 12th century) are the most accomplished witnesses of how the Christian story was illuminated by images.

01.11.2016 Meaning in flight

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The language of birds will make hear something that is at odds with what has been written…

10.08.2015 Correspondences

"Baudelaire de Profil en Chapeau" (Edouard Manet, 1832-1883)
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Correspondences and synaesthesia…

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