Tribute to Yukio Mishima
Tapestry woven by the Saint-Cyr workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist, no. EA1.
1972.
An important protagonist of "The New Tapestry", woven by Pierre Daquin, exhibited at the La Demeure gallery in the 1970s, Jacques Brachet has, since the 1950s, an innovative and experimental approach to the medium, consecrated by the creation of the mural art workshop at the International Center for Pedagogical Studies, in Sèvres, by the staging of "Tapestry in France, 1945-1985, the living tradition" at the National School of Fine Arts, by the design of his action tapestries up to the present day.
Brachet traveled to Japan in 1972. His specifically textile-related intuitions (dissociated from painting): the invention of forms, the use of new materials, natural themes, etc., found renewed direction there. Paradoxically, our tribute to one of the flamboyant figures with a tragic destiny in postwar Japan remains, "textile-wise," restrained: respect for two dimensions, classical weaving, in wool, etc. The colorful motifs (dominated by the red disc of the sun) contrast with the white background, like a ray of light on the sword of seppuku.
Bibliography:
Madeleine Jarry, Tapestry: 20th Century Art, Office du livre, 1974, ill. no. 157.
Exhibition catalog: Jacques Brachet, Oceanic Memories, Angers, Jean Lurçat Museum and Contemporary Tapestry Museum, 1996
