by Nicolas Genty | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog
Alongside his hymn to the yéyé years, Jean-Marie Périer, who settled in the region, has taken the time to document the people from here “les gens d’ici”. The anonymous you meet everyday on the market, at the butcher or the baker. Those people that make the territory...
by Nicolas Genty | Feb 5, 2024 | Blog
Between Villefranche de Rouergue and Figeac lies the beautiful village of Villeneuve, seat of a very special and unexpected maison de la photographie nested in the tourist office: Jean-Marie Périer, a famous photographer of the yéyé period, later film maker, has...
by Nicolas Genty | Feb 2, 2024 | Blog
The yearly event Art Rotterdam is always a good occasion to check out the latest trends in modern art and contemporary photography. Galleries from all over Europe gather in the iconic van Nelle factory and compete for the most outrageous or unique offerings. It goes...
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...
