08.27.2018 Origin of myths
« The myth gives the finite what is missing in infinity, and what it needs from eternity. » (Lucien Jerphagnon)
08.17.2018 Ithaka
08.06.2018 The origins of tragedy and comedy
What was the origin of Greek theatre that turned classical Athens into the place for expressing the art of tragedy and comedy?
07.30.2018 Painting: in the eye of the myth
And what if painting had been, in its mythical origin, the projection of the shadow of a face on a clear surface?
01.15.2018 Orientalism
The illustration of Rose Delight, blending the toile de Jouy with oriental images, leads memento to address the theme of “orientalism”…
11.06.2017 The first of Ovid’s metamorphoses
« Hidden for eons under the mass that squashed them suddenly begin to swarm in the night skies » (Ovid)