Henri, detail of « carton 28 »
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Legoueix workshop.
With its signed ribbon by the artist, n°1/6.
1993-1996.
In the 1980s, the Aubusson tapestry was losing momentum. The public authorities then developed a plan to revive the Tapestry, of which Daniel Riberzani was one of the beneficiaries, being the first scholarship holder of the National Center for Plastic Arts for tapestry: in Aubusson, at the ENAD, he discovered the medium, adopted, at his beginnings, the numbered cardboard, forged links in the workshops...; he then received public orders, for the Gobelins, for the Carpeaux space in Courbevoie (« Music and Dance », a 160 m2 tapestry!),…
Thematic series, in line with his pictorial work, follow one another: « landscapes-events », « intimate paintings », « writings », « painted cardboards », ….
The latter, papers glued and painted in 1993-1994, were designed for a possible textile translation (into tapestries, into carpets, as the case may be); 'Carton 28', from 1993, consists of colored pinned words, serving as a border to a central neutral gray background and, if there was no 'Carpet or Tapestry 28', the artist had details woven, where 'Henri' is accompanied, fragmentary, by 'eruption' and 'sulfur': a tapestry of the margins.
Bibliography:
Exhibition Catalog. History of a tapestry or the meeting of the cannibal and the carnivores, Aubusson, Departmental Museum of Tapestry, 1984
Exhibition Catalog. Tapestries – Painted cartoons, Riberzani with Bezard, Brandon, Four, Gachon, Scioria, Avallon, Collegiate Church of Saint-Lazare, 1995
Gérard Denizeau, Riberzani intimate paintings 1989-1999, Inard Editions, 1999, reproduction n°3, p.159
Daniel Riberzani Works, 2014
