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UNE MAISON D'ÉDITION DE LIVRES D'ART À VOCATION INTERNATIONALE.

14/09/2025

Whispers in blue ink.

Laure Pigeon’s drawings unfold like secret manuscripts — dense weavings of blue ink where words, lace-like patterns, and female figures merge. More than art, they are acts of remembrance, a way to keep alive the voices of those she loved and lost.

📖 LAURE PIGEON

Infiniment bleu / Infinite Bleu

Texts by Sarah Lombardi, Anic Zanzi, Flavie Beuvin

Language: FR/EN

13/09/2025

A legacy saved from silence.

Recognized by Jean Dubuffet as a major case of Art Brut, Laure Pigeon created nearly 450 works between 1935 and 1964. Her pieces, saved from destruction and preserved today in the Collection de l’Art Brut, reveal not only striking visual power but also an intimate, spiritual quest for healing and connection.

📖 LAURE PIGEON
Infiniment bleu / Infinite Bleu

Texts by Sarah Lombardi, Anic Zanzi, Flavie Beuvin

Language: FR/EN

12/09/2025

Bleu, mystère et au-delà.

Dans ses encres d’un bleu profond, Laure Pigeon (1882-1965) tisse un monde de mystère, entre dentelles graphiques et présences invisibles. Artiste spirite autodidacte, elle a fait de ses dessins un chemin vers l’invisible et un dialogue intime avec l’au-delà.

📖 LAURE PIGEON
Infiniment bleu / Infinite Bleu
Textes de Sarah Lombardi, Anic Zanzi, Flavie Beuvin

Langues: FR/EN

10/09/2025

Tribal art reborn.

Jivya Soma Mashe took the Warli women’s ritual paintings—once ephemeral and tied to ceremonies—and turned them into permanent works of art. Through his unique style, he shared his tribe’s culture with India and the world, bringing global recognition to Warli art.

📖 JIVYA SOMA MASHE

Texts by Hervé Perdriolle

Language: EN/FR

09/09/2025

The first book on Jivya Soma Mashe 📖

Through the quality of his work, Jivya Soma Mashe stands comparison with other outstanding enigmatic artists, such as Bill Traylor or Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who broaden our understanding of the diversity of forms and cultures.

Born in 1934 in Maharashtra, India, and raised within the Warli tribe, Mashe inherited a visual language where circles, triangles, and squares embody the spiritual and natural world. While Warli painting was long a women’s ritual art—ephemeral and bound to ceremony—Mashe made it his lifelong medium.

After losing his mother at a young age, he immersed himself in drawing, forging a style that would win admiration across India and beyond. From Indira Gandhi’s recognition in 1976 to major international exhibitions in Paris, his works became a bridge between ancestral tradition and contemporary art.

This is the first book to be entirely dedicated to his artwork.

📖 JIVYA SOMA MASHE
Texts by Hervé Perdriolle

Language: EN/FR

08/09/2025

Art from the earth ✨

Indian artist Jivya Soma Mashe transformed a sacred tradition into a universal language of art, from the walls of Warli huts to the world’s museums.

His works celebrate a culture where geometry, nature, and spirit are one.

📖 JIVYA SOMA MASHE
Texts by Hervé Perdriolle

Language: EN/FR

03/09/2025

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution de l’ouvrage WEST AFRICAN COMBS / PEIGNES D’AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST, disponible en librairie en versions française et anglaise à partir du 5 septembre.

Ne manquez pas la séance de dédicace ! Elle se tiendra à la le 9 septembre, de 17 h à 21 h, en présence des auteurs Najwa Borro, Sarah Boukamel, Valentine Plisnier et François Neyt, ainsi que de l’éditeur Eric Ghysels.

Cet événement se déroulera à l’occasion du vernissage du 2025, Paris. Une exposition inaugurale des œuvres présentées dans l’ouvrage sera également proposée ce même soir.

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📖 WEST AFRICAN COMBS / PEIGNES D’AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST
MINA & SAMIR BORRO COLLECTION / COLLECTION MINA & SAMIR BORRO

Sous la direction de Najwa Borro, Sarah Boukamel, Faouzi Borro et Valentine Plisnier, avec un essai d’Alain-Michel Boyer

02/09/2025

✨ A collector’s jewel in book form ✨

This volume is crafted with the precision of a jewel, presenting a rare selection of nearly one hundred West African combs drawn from one of the world’s most distinguished private collections of sub-Saharan African art.

Spanning over sixty years of dedicated collecting, the book unveils pieces never before seen, accompanied by an authoritative essay by Alain-Michel Boyer—his final, decade-long work devoted to a subject rarely explored.

Beyond their function as personal accessories, these combs from Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Nigeria emerge as miniature sculptures. They embody a pursuit of beauty so refined that they transcend utility, elevating the art of body adornment to the realm of fine art.

📖 WEST AFRICAN COMBS / PEIGNES D’AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST

MINA & SAMIR BORRO COLLECTION / COLLECTION MINA & SAMIR BORRO

Edited by Najwa Borro, Sarah Boukamel, Faouzi Borro, and Valentine Plisnier, with an essay by Alain-Michel Boyer

Available in English and French language

27/08/2025

“To Venice you must always arrive late, when it shuts down, as Morand said, because to life itself you always arrive at a later stage, after discovering that our trade consists in learning to materialize the excess of what we’ve experienced —as Merleau-Ponty would say—over what has already been said”.

“A Venezia devi sempre arrivare tardi, quando si spegne, come diceva Morand, perché alla vita stessa si arriva sempre in un secondo momento, dopo aver scoperto che il nostro mestiere consiste nell’imparare a materializzare l’eccesso di ciò che abbiamo vissuto – come avrebbe affermato Maurice Merleau-Ponty - rispetto a ciò che è già stato detto”.

(Luis Pérez-Oramas)

📖 VENEZIA. Beyond the Icon
Photographs by Alejandro Merizalde
Essay by Luis Pérez-Oramas

Language: ENG, ITA, FRA

Discover more at the link in bio

26/08/2025

Where vision meets silence.

Alejandro Merizalde’s images take us far from the familiar postcards and into the most fragile, authentic side of Venice: the lagoon, the lesser-known islands, the quiet landscapes that speak in whispers.

Over more than a decade, Merizalde has built a story made of light, water, and stillness — a visual tribute to what endures on the edges of the tourist gaze.

Turning these pages, every photograph invites you to see — and protect — a different Venice.

📖 VENEZIA. Beyond the Icon
Photographs by Alejandro Merizalde
Essay by Luis Pérez-Oramas

Language: ENG, ITA, FRA

Discover more at the link in bio

25/08/2025

“La vita, proprio come la natura, a volte preferisce restare nascosta.”

“La vie, parfois, comme la nature, se cache.”

“Life, just like nature, sometimes prefers to remain out of sight”.

(Luis Pérez-Oramas)

📖 VENEZIA. Beyond the Icon
Photographs by Alejandro Merizalde
Essay by Luis Pérez-Oramas

Language: ENG, ITA, FRA

Discover more at the link in bio

12/08/2025

When nature outdoes imagination.

Delicate as porcelain, bold as architecture: the shells in SHELLS evoke ancient vases, futuristic buildings, even precious stones.

📷 With stunning photography by Paul Starosta, this book is your summer escape into the wonders of the sea.

📖SHELLS
Photographs by Paul Starosta. Preface by Paolo Portoghesi

Available in English, French and Italian language

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