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  • Shadow of scents
  • Crossed paths
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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)

02.23.2018 The fold

Madame Grès - Robe du soir (photographie mma, neg #124256 / scanned and retouched by film and media)
Along the way

The fold is both the act of divison and a border of reunion.

02.19.2018 The Luddites

Luddisme (illustration)
Along the way

By breaking the looms to defend noble and well-made work, the Luddites protected their jobs, their skills, their status as well as attacking the control that the mechanisation of labour engendered on their gestures, bodies, rhythms and the links between them, splitting them by dividing their work, on everything that constituted them as a collective body.

02.05.2018 Indian cottons

Indienne, Musée du textile de Wesserling, Alsace (source Wikipédia)
Along the way

The word indiennes refers to cotton fabric, usually thin and lightweight with bright cheerful prints.

02.02.2018 Jean-Baptiste Huet

Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811) - scène champêtre
Along the way

Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811) was an artist. He excelled at painting animals and nature. His name has gone down in history for the motifs he painted for the Oberkampf factory textiles called toiles de Jouy.

01.26.2018 diptyque questionnaire: Leslie David

Leslie David
Crossed paths

Graphic artist Leslie David designed the illustration of Rose Delight.

01.22.2018 A rose

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886), daguerréotype de 1846-47 (Amherst College).
Along the way

A poem from American poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

01.15.2018 Orientalism

Eugène FROMENTIN (1820 - 1876) - Une rue à El-Aghouat. (© Photo RMN-Grand Palais - Droits réservés)
Along the way

The illustration of Rose Delight, blending the toile de Jouy with oriental images, leads memento to address the theme of “orientalism”…

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.

01.01.2018 Rose Delight

visuel-diptyque-orange
Shadow of scents

The Rose Delight scent adds a twist to the rose by infusing it with the sweet aroma of Turkish delight.

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