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)
10.19.2018 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)
08.13.2018 Gift giving
“The beautiful gift has three features that make it stand out amongst thousands of others.” (Jean-Claude Kaufmann)
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)
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)
04.13.2018 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)
03.16.2018 Perfumes of the sixties
Perfumes of the Sixties are characterised by originality, the increased use of synthetic ingredients blended with wonderful natural ingredients, classicism and sensuality.
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)
02.16.2018 Perfumed wigs
“Scented powder was all the rage.” (Annick Le Guérer)
02.09.2018 Rrose Sélavy
“This ambiguous effigy wearing a hat and string of pearls already had a name: Rrose Sélavy.” (Marcel Duchamp)
01.12.2018 Young girl combing her hair
Young girl combing her hair (1894) of Auguste Renoir, by writer and exhibition commissioner Pascal Bonafoux, also a Professor Emeritus of History of Art at University Paris VIII.
01.08.2018 Toiles de Jouy
Jouy fabric created by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf became all the rage because the prints were designed as if they were real paintings. The illustrations of Rose Delight were inspired by the original toiles de Jouy.