Press release - Paris Musées

Press release
DECORUM
Artists' Rugs and Tapestries
11 October 2013 – 9 February 2014
Opening: Thursday 10 October 6-9 pm
Press preview: Thursday 10 October 11 am - 2 pm
The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris is spotlighting the art of
textile with the exhibition Decorum: over a hundred rugs and tapestries
from modern artists (Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso) and the
contemporary scene (Dewar & Gicquel, Vidya Gastaldon).
Decorum is a chance to discover often unknown ventures into weaving by
major artists and such lesser known ones (as Guidette Carbonell). As a
guide to influences and points of comparison, the exhibition also includes
anonymous works from different periods and places.
The virtues of rugs and tapestries – they are visual and tactile, artistic and
functional, and readily transportable: Le Corbusier called his tapestries
'Muralnomad' – mean they transcend the usual limitations of the decorative
arts and interior design.
Until the late 19th century painters like Lotto, Holbein and Delacroix
restricted themselves to drawing tapestry cartoons or including Oriental
carpets in their pictures. In the course of the 20th century, however, the
European avant-gardes revolutionized textile art and practice: artists began
weaving their own rugs, drawing on works from earlier periods or ethnic and
geometrical motifs.
Often bearing a political or feminist message since the 1960s, rugs and
tapestries have enjoyed a marked rise in popularity since the turn of the new
millennium. Young contemporary artists like Caroline Achaintre and Pae
White are now producing original works that blend tradition, modernity and
non-Western influences, as well as resorting to new techniques like digital
weaving.
Caroline Achaintre
Moustache-Eagle, 2008
Courtesy Saatchi Gallery, London
© Caroline Achaintre
Director
Fabrice Hergott
Exhibition curator
Anne Dressen
Visitor information
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
11 avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
Tél. 01 53 67 40 00
www.mam.paris.fr
Open Tuesday - Sunday
10 am – 6 pm
Late night opening : Thursday until 10 pm
An ARC exhibition
Admission
Full rate : 8 €
Concessions : 6 € (over-60s, teachers,
jobseekers, large family cardholders)
Half price: 4 € (ages 14-26, minimum welfare
benefit recipients)
Free for under-14s
Educational activities
Information and bookings
This is an exhibition that challenges the standard notions of tapestry as a
minor or anachronistic art form. It also evokes a little-known aspect of the
history of the MAM, which had its own Textile Art department in the 1980s.
As guest artistic director, London artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz has
designed the exhibition in collaboration with Christine-Ilex Beinemeier. The
environmental music (“furniture music”) serving as a backdrop is a playlist
chosen by art historian Jean-Philippe Antoine.
The richly illustrated catalogue is co edited with Skira-Flammarion (graphic
design by Huz&Bosshard).
Following page: list of artists included in the exhibition
Tél. 01 53 67 40 80
Press officer
Marine Le Bris
Email : [email protected]
Tél. : 01 53 67 40 50
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Artists included in the exhibition (subject to confirmation):
1880-1940
Anni Albers
Francis Bacon
Giacomo Balla
Braquenié Brothers
Sonia Delaunay
Frederick Etchells (Omega
Workshop)
Gustave Fayet
Le Corbusier
Fernand Léger
Märta Måås Fjetterström
Gustave Miklos
William Morris
Pablo Picasso
Otto Prutscher
Hannah Ryggen
Ivan da Silva Bruhns
Sophie Taeuber Arp
Evelyn Wyld
1940-1970
Brassaï
Lucien Coutaud
Marcel Gromaire
Maria Lai
Jean Lurçat
Mathieu Matégot
Barbro Nilsson
Jean Picart-Le Doux
Carol Rama
Dom Robert
Victor Vasarely
1970-1980
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Olga de Amaral
Atelier Wissa Wassef
Pierrette Bloch
Alighiero Boetti
Louise Bourgeois
Geta Brătescu
Jagoda Buic
Guidette Carbonell
Pierre Daquin
Noa Eshkol
Lissy Funk
Françoise Giannesini
Elsi Giauque
Piero Gilardi
Thomas Gleb
Daniel Graffin
Josep Grau-Garriga
Helen Frances Gregor
Sheila Hicks
Jules Leclercq
Aldo Mondino
Verner Panton
Mariette Rousseau-Vermette
Wojciech Sadley
Kay Sekimachi
Maryn Varbanov
1980-2000
John M Armleder
Pierre Buraglio
David Hammons
Mike Kelley
François-Xavier Lalanne
Bertrand Lavier
Albert Oehlen
Nathalie du Pasquier
Elizabeth Radcliffe
Gerwald Rockenschaub
Dieter Roth & Ingrid Wiener
Judith Scott
Rudolf Stingel
Rosemarie Trockel
Franz West
Since 2000
Caroline Achaintre
Leonor Antunes
Stefano Arienti
Atelier E.B.
Michel Aubry
Tauba Auerbach
Mark Barrow et Sarah Parke
Nina Beier
Michael Beutler
Anna Betbeze
Gillian Carnegie
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Claude Closky
Isabelle Cornaro
Alexandre da Cunha
Dewar & Gicquel
Latifa Echakhch
Marius Engh
Ryan Gander
Vidya Gastaldon
Yann Gerstberger
Jim Isermann
Sergej Jensen
Abdoulaye Konaté
Karin Mamma Andersson
Mai-Thu Perret
Présence Panchounette
Willem de Rooij
Shirana Shahbazi
Vincent Vulsma
Nadia Wallis
Pae White