Jean-René SAUTOUR-GAILLARD

Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
1997.

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 2 vests from the exhibition 'Archaeologies' held at the Inard gallery in 1997 demonstrate the willingness of the 'Aubusson thread', then in great distress, to vary its productions: Sautour-Gaillard, a great collector of fabrics himself, shows the same inspiration as in his contemporary woven collages.

Bibliography:
D. Cavelier, Jean-René Sautour-Gaillard, la déchirure, Lelivredart, 2013, reproduced p.6 (worn by the artist), 296