All articles filed in José Bréval

  Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, 40% of Lucy’s 3,2 M years old skeleton was acknowledged as a fossilised hominid of the Australopithecus afarensis species. Then, one claimed she died at the age of 25, that she was able to stand up and walk as well as climbing on trees… and eventually that she might…

With Carrés malgré eux – “Squares in spite of themselves”, the rule is how to make objects, shapes, materials fit to a square. Depending on their nature: paper, wood, canvas, metal, strings… this is achieved through appropriate transformations such as folding, cutting, shrinking, crumpling, bending… Results may be aesthetic or ordinary, pretty or funny, sometimes amazing…

Monet, Claude Monet, French artist, (Paris 1840 – Giverny 1926), one of the founders of Impressionism Making a banknote is firstly a matter of paper. It mustn’t be any kind of paper other than cotton, mixed with a sprinkle of different fibres and splashed under watermarks, threads, plastic windows, metallic elements, laser prints and holograms…

“Ah, Breval, la Diagonale, c’est le Diable” Richard-Paul Lohse (1) told me one day (Ah, Breval, the Diagonal, it’s the Devil). I can still remember it was in July 1979 in Austria… I can’t remember what he meant but at least I guessed this damned diagonal might have been giving him a lot of problems! From…