Henri, detail from "box 28"
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Legoueix workshop.
With its selvedge signed by the artist, no. 1/6.
1993-1996.
In the 1980s, Aubusson tapestry was in decline. The public authorities then developed a plan to revive tapestry, of which Daniel Riberzani would be one of the beneficiaries, becoming the first recipient of a grant from the National Center for Visual Arts for tapestry: in Aubusson, at the ENAD (National School of Decorative Arts), he discovered the medium, adopted, in his early days, the numbered cartoon, and forged connections in the workshops…; he would later receive public commissions, for the Gobelins Manufactory, for the Carpeaux space in Courbevoie (“Music and Dance”, a 160 m2 tapestry!),…
Thematic series, reflecting his pictorial work, followed one another: “landscape-events”, “intimate paintings”, “writings”, “painted cartoons”,….
These latter, glued and painted papers from 1993-1994, were designed for a possible textile translation (into tapestries, into rugs, depending on the case); "Carton 28", from 1993, consists of colored pinned words, acting as a border to a central neutral grey background and, if there was no "Tapis or Tapisserie 28", the artist had details woven from it, where "Henri" rubs shoulders, fragmentary, with "eruption" and "sulfur": a tapestry of the margins.
Bibliography:
Exhibition catalog, *Histoire d'une tapisserie ou la rencontre du cannibale et les carnassiers*, Aubusson, Musée départemental de la Tapisserie, 1984;
Exhibition catalog, *Tapesteries – Cartons peints, Riberzani* with Bezard, Brandon, Four, Gachon, Scioria, Avallon, Collégiale Saint-Lazare, 1995;
Gérard Denizeau, *Riberzani peintures intimes 1989-1999*, Inard Editions, 1999, repro. no. 3, p. 159;
Daniel Riberzani, *Œuvres*, 2014
