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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)

12.22.2017 The antic sky of Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly - Plafond de la salle des bronzes (détail), Musée du Louvre, Paris
Crossed paths

“Cy Twombly’s work feeds on historical references, literature and art.” (Etienne Sallon)

12.18.2017 Space: obscure clarity

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Melencolia (gravure, 1514)
Crossed paths

“The first blackness is that of night… ” (Annie Mollard-Desfour)

12.11.2017 Thomas Ruff, The Little Prince of Stars

Thomas Ruff - 17H, 36M/-34° - (Christie's images LTD 2017)
Crossed paths

” Thomas Ruff cancelled out any resemblance to reality and broke with the traditionally more emotional representation of the subject.” (Elodie Morel)

12.08.2017 Stars (of visibility)

stars
Crossed paths

“Visibility is the key for public recognition on a grand scale.” (Julia Kerninon)

12.01.2017 Usury and the stars

Giotto (1266/7-1337) - Fresque de la chapelle Santa Maria della Carità all’Arena (Saint Marie de la Charité de l’Arène) à Padoue (détail): partie de la voûte située à l’ouest, du côté de l’entrée de la chapelle. La Vierge Marie portant l’enfant le Christ dans le médaillon central est entourée de quatre médaillons où figurent des prophètes.
Crossed paths

Usury and the Stars by writer and art historian, Pascal Bonafoux, about stars in the fresco of Giotto in the chapel of Santa Maria della Carità all’Arena.

10.27.2017 The logic of organised sensations of Cezanne

Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) Le cruchon vert (Photo© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Tony Querrec), Musée d'Orsay, conservé au Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Crossed paths

« There is no line, there is no modelling, there are only contrasts » (Lawrence Gowing)

09.22.2017 When an accident creates a new identity

Bertrand Lavier, Giulietta, 1993, vue de l’exposition Bertrand Lavier, depuis 1969, Paris, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’Art moderne, 2012.
Crossed paths

“Accident and creation are therefore not in opposition.” (Catherine Malabou)

09.18.2017 The story of a photography

Une Delage au Grand Prix de l’Automobile Club de France, circuit de Dieppe, 26 juin 1912 – Jacques Henri Lartigue
Crossed paths

The photography was was blurred and the main subject matter had barely made it into the frame.

09.15.2017 American Paris

Le Dingo bar - Rendu célèbre par Ernst Hemingway dans « Paris est une fête »,  au comptoir duquel il rencontra Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Crossed paths

“The American of Paris is what America does best.” (Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)

08.25.2017 Return to Kep

(© Cristóbal Bouey 2017)
Along the way

“The scent of jasmine and roses whisks me back to the riverbanks at Kep” (Soko Phay)

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)

08.11.2017 A history of the gestures of perfumery

Pomme de senteur tenue au bout d’une chaînette (détail d’un portrait  de femme de Nicolas de Neuchatel dit Lucidel)
Crossed paths

“From its origins to today, perfume has continued to induce practices and gestures.” (Annick Le Guérer)

08.07.2017 Il Disegno, drawing and design

Drawing Hands (« Mains dessinant »), lithographie de Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)
Crossed paths

“Drawing is even more important because it is at the origin of a piece of work.” (Pascal Bonafoux)

07.28.2017 Perfume: the story of a murderer

Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) - Nymphe et satyre, dit aussi Jupiter et Antiope, Musée du Louvre
Crossed paths

“This novel by Patrick Süskind is primarily the story of a Nose called Jean-Baptiste Grenouille” (Julia Kerninon)

07.14.2017 Philosophy of Smell

Portrait de Eleonora Tommasi par Silvestro Lega (1826-1895), (CRÉDITLEEMAGE - AFP)
Crossed paths

“Smell acquires its pedigree via the art that expresses the beauty and power of fragrances. ” (Chantal Jaquet)

06.30.2017 Morvarid K.: “Preserved for a better day”

'Preserved for a better day' (11), de Morvarid K. (© Morvarid K.)
Crossed paths

With « Preserved for a better day », artist Morvarid K. recalls the daily lives of people living in Tehran.

06.26.2017 Philosophical thought of cinema

Image extraite de Rear Window (Fenêtre sur cour), film réalisé par  Alfred Hitchcock, sorti en 1954.
Crossed paths

“The moment is not overcome. It turns into a drama and a sequence that confronts action with time.” (Jean-Clet Martin)

06.23.2017 The concept of time of Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias (1897-1990), Fondation Norbert Elias.
Crossed paths

“time is a phenomenon that is constructed by the very tools that measure it.” (Nathalie Heinich)

06.16.2017 On Kawara

On Kawara, May 1, 1987, acrylique sur toile, 154.9 x 226.1 cm. (© Christie’s images, 2017)
Crossed paths

“These dates, that follow each other in succession, paint a picture of a mysterious artist .” (Paul Nyzam)

05.26.2017 What is contemporaneity?

Le Membre Fantôme, installation view, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015 (photo by Nic Tenwiggenhorn)
Crossed paths

“The issue of modern art and contemporaneity is the same” (Olivier Zahm)

04.21.2017 Cy Twombly

Untitled, de Cy Twombly (1928-2011). Huile, mine de plomb et crayon gras sur papier 70 x 87.5 cm. (27½ x 34½ in.) Réalisé à Rome en juillet 1970.
Crossed paths

Art that is both painting and literature, Twombly’s work would remain hush-hush for a long time.

04.07.2017 Mirrors of water

Nymphéas (1905), de Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Crossed paths

The water lilies appear secondary to the shimmering water…

03.27.2017 David Hockney’s perspective

David Hockney, Hollywood Hills studio, le 8 décembre 2015 (© Katherine McMahon)
Crossed paths

“Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective…” – David Hockney

03.24.2017 Writing Degree Zero

Roland Barthes en 1981
Crossed paths

« Is there any poetic writing? » asks Roland Barthes in his first essay Writing degree zero.

03.17.2017 Murder in an English garden

Meurtre dans un jardin anglais (image) - film de Peter Greenaway, sorti en 1982
Crossed paths

However framed the image may be, it is neither a reflection of reality nor does it reveal the truth. It masks it.

02.17.2017 Portrait of the XVIIIe century

Une soirée chez Madame Geoffrin, (1812), Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (1743-1824)
Crossed paths

The Crazy Day or the Marriage of Figaro, was first performed on the 27th April 1784 in the presence of Marie-Antoinette herself in a brand new theatre, since named the Odeon Theatre.

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