Yvan Salolnone was born and continues to live in St Malo, in town just a few miles along the Brittany coast east of Saint-Brieuc. Sitting In his house, the day after our cafe de Flore rendez vous with Raymond Hains, l was looking through the newest in his ongoing series of cahiers: beautifully constructed artist's books, bound together from black-and-white images of his own watercolours alongside a free movement of reference images, from film stills to paintings, to book illustrations, drawings

Monique Frydman works on the colour, the light and the material. Sinuous ornaments and velvety figures cross her canvas as colour and light choreography. Her work unfurls between determinism and chance, between though colour and « hold hand » colour. By a tactile relationship with the material, and thantksfull to an experienced technic perfectly managed, the texture itself was born from her work. The surface becomes a sensitive organ, a reactive skin escapes from the line primacy on the colour.