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12.21.2018 Light for children

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940 )
Crossed paths

“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

Gerhard Richter - Vitraux du transept sud de la cathédrale de Cologne
Crossed paths

“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

John Cage (1912-1992) en 1978 (photo©Corinto Marianelli)
Crossed paths

“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

Le baiser d'amour - image extraite du film Au hasard Balthazar, de Robert Bresson (1965)
Crossed paths

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

Constant New Babylon (1969)
Crossed paths

” 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

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) - Un coup de dés ... (illustration du poème de Mallarmé réalisée entre 1897 et 1898) ; album Ambroise Vollard (projet d'édition qui ne vit pas le jour).
Crossed paths

“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

Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather (1972)
Along the way

“The beautiful gift has three features that make it stand out amongst thousands of others.” (Jean-Claude Kaufmann)

07.23.2018 Amphitryon

Mounet-Sully Amphitryon - (photographie tirage isuu de l'Atelier Nadar (source Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Gallica)
Crossed paths

“The spectator, familiar with this intrigue, enjoys the confusion caused by this game of doubles.” (Eve Mascarau)

07.02.2018 Target man

Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) - Portrait prémonitoire de Guillaume Apollinaire (1914) Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris
Crossed paths

“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

Yves Klein (1928-1962) - Saut dans le vide (1960)
Crossed paths

“These artists agreed to push the classical boundaries of works of art […]” (Isaline Bouchet)

04.27.2018 PROVOKE

Anonyme, Contestation autour de la construction de l’aéroport de Narita, c. 1969 / Collection Art Institute of Chicago
Crossed paths

“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

Quelques compositeurs du courant minimaliste (de gauche à droite) : Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams, Terry Riley, Michael Nyman, et Arvo Pärt.
Crossed paths

“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

Messe Pour le Temps Présent, ballet créé par Maurice Béjart (01-1967-©jlggb)
Crossed paths

“For the first time at the Avignon Festival, dance hit all the buttons.” (Karine Le Bail)

04.13.2018 Four lads of the sixties

National Portrait Gallery handout of a rare photograph of The Beatles which will be part of an exhibition, Beatles to Bowie: the 60s Exposed at the National Portrait Gallery. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday June 25, 2009.  The exhibition will include 150 photographs and 150 other items including record sleeves, illustrated sheet music and magazines and will feature more than 100 previously unseen images of groups such as The Kinks, The Who and early portraits of singers such as Sir Cliff Richard, Billy Fury and Marianne Faithfull. See PA story ARTS Sixties. Photo credit should read: Robert Whitaker/PA Wire
Crossed paths

“The Sixties were therefore the era of the Beatles.” (Julia Kerninon)

04.09.2018 “Arnulf Rainer”, of Peter Kubelka

Peter Kubelka, Arnulf Rainer, 1958-1960, 35mm, nb, son, 6:14min( Copyright Peter Kubelka)
Crossed paths

“Austrian artist Peter Kubelka revolutionised moving images ” (Jonathan Pouthier)

04.06.2018 diptyque questionnaire: Safia Ouares

Safia Ouares
Crossed paths

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 - Thirty Parking Lots, 1967 © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian
Crossed paths

“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

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Crossed paths

” They followed this theory with vigour: in the cinema, the real author is the director.” (Françoise Zamour)

03.26.2018 Drawings from Henri Michaux

Henri Michaux, Vibrations mescaliennes, 1955©CHRISTIE’S IMAGES, 2017
Crossed paths

“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
Crossed paths

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”

Le philosophe Jean-Paul Sartre avec Simone de Beauvoir (au fond, le regardant en souriant) distribuant le journal maoïste "La Cause du Peuple", interdit par le gouvernement français, à Paris en 1970. (© Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos)
Crossed paths

“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

Twist des sixties
Crossed paths

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

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)

02.16.2018 Perfumed wigs

Femme se faisant coiffer (biscuit)
Crossed paths

“Scented powder was all the rage.” (Annick Le Guérer)

02.09.2018 Rrose Sélavy

Portrait de Rrose Sélavy en 1921, par Man Ray
Crossed paths

“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

Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) - Jeune fille se coiffant les cheveux, 1894, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Crossed paths

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

Toile de Jouy (détail de motifs) (© Musée de la toile de Jouy)
Crossed paths

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.

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