Guest Artists

Martino Ruggieri conceived the gastronomic poems for the Spring 2026 menu of Maison Ruggieri, in dialogue with the works of Michel Paysant (France, 1955), extending his exhibition VOIR MONET at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, where the artist presented his work on Claude Monet’s garden from October 2025 to late January 2026. Six exclusive original drawings by the artist are exhibited in the rooms of Maison Ruggieri this season. These works were created using the DALY technique (Dessiner Avec Les Yeux, Drawing With the Eyes), invented by Michel Paysant. The drawings result from recording the artist’s eye movements using an Eye Tracker, an oculometry process that tracks eye movements, fixations, and shifts.

“Drawings where observation becomes pure creation and where the eyes turn into pencils,” explains the artist. His brush, guided by the eye rather than the hand, produces drawings on paper that are then executed by a robot and enhanced by hand. Michel Paysant’s art demonstrates a highly creative interaction between the artist and artificial intelligence, generating entirely new images and forms.

“This techno-aesthetic project develops a singularity and a philosophical intent,” notes Michel Paysant. “The human being remains the trigger; the artist remains the heart and breath of the work. Technology surrounds it, the machine accompanies it, but is neither its center nor its purpose.”

Following in the legacy of Monet, who said “perhaps I owe it to flowers that I became a painter,” Michel Paysant has made still life the subject of his most innovative experiments.

The flowers from the EDEN Suite exhibited in the restaurant become the starting point for the most daring and sophisticated drawings, generating timeless works. Trained at the Royal College of Art in London, Michel Paysant lives and works in Paris. Considered one of the most pioneering contemporary artists, his works have been exhibited at the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, MUDAM (Luxembourg), the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the UCCA Museum in Beijing, the National Museum of Riyadh…

Jérôme Neutres, exhibition curator