Brasserie Lipp - Jat Batlle
Brasserie Lipp
From the Selection of Menus: RSVP, VIP, RIP portfolio (2 of 12)
“Brasserie Lipp” is Jay Batlle’s ode to the legendary Parisian café, a haunt of poets, politicians, and provocateurs since 1880. With this work, Batlle captures more than just a menu — he captures a mood. The elegance of old-world France seeps through hand-rendered script, wine-stained overlays, and gestural washes, evoking late-night debates and whispered affairs over choucroute garnie.
At once decadent and deteriorating, the piece balances formality with decay. Batlle’s painterly interventions fracture the menu's symmetry, disrupting the neat categories of hors d’oeuvres and digestifs with visual noise and conceptual critique. It's a celebration of gastronomy, yes — but also of ephemerality, of the stories that happen around the meal rather than the meal itself.
Batlle invites viewers to linger, to taste the romance of nostalgia and the irony of preservation. “Brasserie Lipp” is not just a menu — it’s a manifesto about memory, artifice, and the sacred rituals of the table.
Brasserie Lipp
From the Selection of Menus: RSVP, VIP, RIP portfolio (2 of 12)
“Brasserie Lipp” is Jay Batlle’s ode to the legendary Parisian café, a haunt of poets, politicians, and provocateurs since 1880. With this work, Batlle captures more than just a menu — he captures a mood. The elegance of old-world France seeps through hand-rendered script, wine-stained overlays, and gestural washes, evoking late-night debates and whispered affairs over choucroute garnie.
At once decadent and deteriorating, the piece balances formality with decay. Batlle’s painterly interventions fracture the menu's symmetry, disrupting the neat categories of hors d’oeuvres and digestifs with visual noise and conceptual critique. It's a celebration of gastronomy, yes — but also of ephemerality, of the stories that happen around the meal rather than the meal itself.
Batlle invites viewers to linger, to taste the romance of nostalgia and the irony of preservation. “Brasserie Lipp” is not just a menu — it’s a manifesto about memory, artifice, and the sacred rituals of the table.
Brasserie Lipp
From the Selection of Menus: RSVP, VIP, RIP portfolio (2 of 12)
“Brasserie Lipp” is Jay Batlle’s ode to the legendary Parisian café, a haunt of poets, politicians, and provocateurs since 1880. With this work, Batlle captures more than just a menu — he captures a mood. The elegance of old-world France seeps through hand-rendered script, wine-stained overlays, and gestural washes, evoking late-night debates and whispered affairs over choucroute garnie.
At once decadent and deteriorating, the piece balances formality with decay. Batlle’s painterly interventions fracture the menu's symmetry, disrupting the neat categories of hors d’oeuvres and digestifs with visual noise and conceptual critique. It's a celebration of gastronomy, yes — but also of ephemerality, of the stories that happen around the meal rather than the meal itself.
Batlle invites viewers to linger, to taste the romance of nostalgia and the irony of preservation. “Brasserie Lipp” is not just a menu — it’s a manifesto about memory, artifice, and the sacred rituals of the table.
