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02.13.2017 Valentine’s day

Une "valentine"
Crossed paths

The history of Valentine’s Day is not very well known.

02.10.2017 Mirror on Narcissus

Le Caravage, Narcisse, 1598-1599, huile sur toile, conservé à la Galerie nationale d’art ancien de Rome.
Crossed paths

Condemned to never being able to embrace his beloved, he desperately tries to maintain the magic of illusion.

01.30.2017 Defining the pink

The world’s pinkest Pink, Stuart Stemple
Crossed paths

Pink is full of ambiguity. This is an elusive colour.

12.23.2016 The Japanese gift package according to Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes, Dessin, 14 août 1975 (Département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
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« … it is precisely a speciality of the Japanese package that the triviality of the thing be disproportionate to the luxury of the envelope. » (Roland Barthes)

12.12.2016 Harlequin

Evariste Gherardi faisant le personage d'Arlequin. Paris chez J. Mariette rue S. Jacques aux colonnes d'Hercules, vers 1710. BnF/EST. Coll. Hennin.
Crossed paths

Although originating from Italy, the charachter of Harlequin was born at the French the royal court.

12.05.2016 A time-sound dream

La Monte Young
Crossed paths

Now aged 80, La Monte Young stands firmly on the fringes of the commercial world and continues to create music.

11.14.2016 Theatre set design

Le temple Salomon, décors de Philippe Ricquier de 1846 (source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Crossed paths

The role of decor in theatre production emerged slowly in successive stages.

10.24.2016 Design of light

Lampe PH1 par Poul Henningsen
Crossed paths The invention of indirect lighting and its offshoots, Ásdís Ólafsdóttir When Danish writer, architect and designer Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) designed his first lamps around 1924 the electric light bulb was in the process of crossing over from public to private lighting usage. Having been brought up in a house with oil lamps, Henningsen tried to replicate the soft lighting of his childhood. All his designs aimed to prevent the user…

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

10.03.2016 Praises of fermentation

Yannick Alléno (©Geoffroy de Boismenu)
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Yannick Alléno presents Terroirs, his latest book which main topic is fermentation in gastronomy, another praise of slowness…

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.

09.09.2016 Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot - Adiantum Capillus-Veneris (Maidenhair Fern), probably early 1839. Photogenic drawing negative 22.5 x 18.3 cm
Courtesy of Hans P. Kraus Jr., New York
Crossed paths

Talbot is the English inventor of photography, just as Niépce and Daguerre were the French inventors of the same.

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.

08.01.2016 Josef Sudek at Jeu de Paume museum

Josef, Sudek, Dans le jardin enchanté, 1954–1959
de la série Souvenirs
épreuve gélatino-argentique
17 × 23,3 cm
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa
Don anonyme, 2010
©Succession de Josef Sudek
Crossed paths

Sudek’s mastery of the pigment printing process enabled him to produce highly atmospheric and evocative images, thereby reaping all of the reflective and descriptive power of the gelatin silver print.

06.27.2016 Pierre de Fenoÿl

21.6.85 18h (France, Tarn, 1985), photographie de Pierre de Fenoÿl
Crossed paths

« My meanderings through the world of photography made me veer firmly towards a religious and almost mystical perception of photography » (Pierre de Fenoÿl)

06.20.2016 The smell of memory

Flacon d'eau de toilette (cheramy) A REDECOUPER STP
Crossed paths

So many poets and writers have deliberated on the mnemonic power of smell.

06.13.2016 Jean Imbert: cooking and travelling

Jean Imbert
Crossed paths

« The thing I love the most about travelling is all those little titbits I find out about culinary culture, ancestral know-how, produce and regional specialities! »

06.03.2016 Contemporary geophotography

Jürgen Nefzger, Cofrentes, Espana, 2005. ©Jürgen Nefzger
Crossed paths

Since the Seventies landscapes have blossomed in the field of «fine art » photography.

05.30.2016 Liners from the past

d'artagnan3
Crossed paths

These ocean liners were real floating palaces.

05.23.2016 Motionless voyage

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The most dreadful journey can be undertaken with the smallest of steps.

05.20.2016 Peter Doig: peaceful eeriness

Red boat (imaginary boys) de Peter Doig (né en 1959) ©Christie’s images, 2016
Crossed paths

A bright red boat glides gently across a lake fringed by dense jungle…

04.28.2016 Dada optophonetic

Kp'erioum, Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)
Crossed paths

“This wordless poetry already constituted one of the most salient features of Dada.”

04.25.2016 Gastronomy and perfume

Anne Sophie Pic (photographie de Anne-Emmanuelle Thion)
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“I have always been really interested in the world of perfume because of its evocative power.” (Anne-Sophie Pic)

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.

04.11.2016 Calvino’s senses

Italo Calvino à New York en 1983 (photographie ©Dominique Nabokov)
Crossed paths

Writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) planned to write five tales, each dedicated to one of the senses.

03.14.2016 The magic of the moment

Un bol de prunes (Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, 1699-1779)
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This particular experience – the magic of the moment – is based on our sensations: letting the work of the five senses gradually spread their wings.

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.

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