Galerie Da-End

"Da End cabinet of wonders, remains aesthetes.

What is generally appreciated in an art gallery today - besides the quality of the artists presented - it's the simplicity of the architecture and neutral space. It is rare that they also make a strong impression that the works on display. Yet it is the unsettling experience that can make crossing the threshold of Da-End gallery that just opened its doors this summer in Saint-Germain des Prés. (...) Three rooms, hallways, alcoves, some lecterns and easels, of shadows and light, walls with rich and deep colors ... It's a jewel, a place "halfway between the cabinet of curiosity and some secret place ", according to the gallery, the photographer Satoshi Saikusa and his companion Diem Quynh. Antechamber of an opium den or boudoir delicious pleasures and torments; it is as if the spirit of the symbolist and decadent - Huysmans head - had finally found a place to stay in Paris. A home "backwards" which float around works of today - the nimbant their shine - the spirit of Verlaine, Baudelaire, Nerval, Poe and Mallarmé. Da-End oval means in Japanese; a term referring to the world intrauterine, fantasies and nightmares, enjoyment as suffering. Artificialia, Curiosa, Naturalia, Erotica: it is also, beyond the boundaries of art, the starting point of a quest: that of unusual, bizarre and precious. Da End is a wonderful place and anachronistic: a dark place where grow poisonous flowers, a hothouse where the heady scents exhale is "David Rosenberg..