Gali Street is a street in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Luka Jikia took an image of this street to build one of his colour symphonies. Only the silhouettes of the buildings and the forgivingly blue sky escape the festival of colour…
“Come with me into the void”. That was Yves Klein's (1928 – 1962) title for the lyrics of a song used in his 1960 exhibition Pinturas antropométricas. The void, lightness, transparency, “that…
The old-timers among us may remember when only sailors and ex-cons had tattoos. If someone who wasn't an old sea dog or hadn't done time in the slammer was sporting a…
Albert Camus's The Plague sold out in bookshops and Bergman's The Seventh Seal as the official film of the quarantine. Europe has been turned upside down in a matter of weeks and many want to know more…
They say every crisis is also an opportunity. For art lovers, this lockdown has been a chance to discover (or remember) that many museums have excellent tours…
They say Andy Warhol and Jean Dubuffet already used ballpoint pens to pass the time while they were mulling over their next projects. Because who hasn't amused themselves with a BIC pen in the middle of…
A glowing giant, well wrapped up and wearing little glasses, hangs from the roof of the Genève-Cornavin station. With one hand he's helping another giant climb up the station wall. Somewhere else in the…
Oscar Capeche has been painting for almost 50 years now. Five decades of exploring plastic expression and of creating "a complementary universe" in which to reflect…