by Nicolas Genty | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog
My knowledge of the Dutch culture expands daily with new discoveries, This time, I came across Dutch poet Lucebert, an artist, dubbed as “poet of the COBRA movement”, determining in the art movement of the fifties and also famous for the following verse...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 30, 2024 | Blog
When ordinary is extraordinary. For sure, Rob Hornstra’s characters are ordinary but at the same time far from ordinary. And yet, they are you and me, your neighbor, the shop keeper at the street corner, your cousin, as long as they carry a Kalashnikov and fight...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 20, 2024 | Blog
As often, I did not know the existence of Anton Corbijn before attending the large retrospective of his work at Cobra Museum in Amstelveen. An enigmatic title “Moød” welcomes the visitors: “Mood” with the second o scratched and an e added to...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 19, 2024 | Blog
Japan remains a fascinating place to me. Its landscapes, its people, its history and culture are sources of excitment, thrill, happiness, surprises. Sufficient motivations to visit the current exhibit in Musée Guimet “An ephemeral portrait of Japan” before...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
“If you leave early in the morning, If you go on these roads, By bicycle, We were a bunch of good friends, There were Fernand and Firmin, There were Francis and Sébastian, And then Paulette”… It is with these words that the song by Pierre Barouh and...
