The voice of the reliquary
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
Label signed by the artist, No. 1/3.
1975.
A student of Wogensky at the National Higher School of Applied Arts, Sautour-Gaillard saw his first cartoon woven in 1971 by the Legoueix workshop (a collaboration that was not denied subsequently), and he then multiplied monumental projects, the most spectacular of which is "For a certain ideal", a hanging of 17 tapestries on the theme of Olympism (preserved at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne). Initially close to lyrical abstraction, the artist produced cartoons in the 90s based on assemblages of decorative motifs, textures and figures, apparently superimposed and unified in the weaving.
“The voice of the reliquary” testifies to the artist's proximity to lyrical abstraction at his beginnings with a Soulages or a Schneider. We find, transposed into wool, the effects of gestures, even drips, characteristic of the artists of the “lyrical flight”, in an extremely reduced range of colors.
Bibliography:
D. Cavelier, Jean-René Sautour-Gaillard, la déchirure, Lelivredart, 2013, ill. p.163
