02.26.2018 Pistoletto
“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
The fold is both the act of divison and a border of reunion.
02.19.2018 The Luddites
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
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) 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
Graphic artist Leslie David designed the illustration of Rose Delight.
01.22.2018 A rose
A poem from American poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
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”…
01.08.2018 Toiles de Jouy
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
The Rose Delight scent adds a twist to the rose by infusing it with the sweet aroma of Turkish delight.