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05.07.2018 Eau des Sens

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Shadow of scents

Eau des sens renders the whole cycle of the tree, from hard to soft and sensual and bitter to sweet culminating in this roundness of scent.

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)

04.02.2018 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)

03.19.2018 “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.

03.12.2018 Scientific horizons in the Sixties

Ivan Sutherland met au point le premier logiciel graphique interactif avec stylo optique pour dessiner sur écran des schémas techniques, en 1963 au MIT.
Along the way

The sixties also remain familiar to us because our current era is still evolving technically, conceptually and culturally as a result of what began back then.

03.05.2018 The hippie and the liberalism

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Along the way

The limiting experience of an LSD trip desired by the wayward teen and the mystical ecstasy experienced by the devout as a result of faith and fasting were readily believed to be of the same nature.

03.02.2018 diptyque: fifty years of olfactory creation

Desmond Knox-Leet et Yves Coueslant devant la boutique diptyque du 34 boulevard Saint Germain.
Shadow of scents

The Sixties are twice as important for diptyque, which came to life twice during that time…

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