Jorj MORIN

The secret

Tapestry woven by the Saint-Cyr workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist, no. I/VI.
1971.

After settling in Nantes in the early 1930s, Morin worked in advertising design. He also practiced painting and engraving, initially figurative, then in an abstract style from 1954 onwards. His interest in monumental decoration was expressed in mosaics (particularly within the framework of the "1% for art" law, primarily for schools in the Nantes region), but also in tapestry. Indeed, as early as 1952, he received commissions for tapestries with religious subjects, which were woven by the Plasse le Caisne workshop (which also worked for Manessier, Le Moal, and others). From 1969, he worked with the Saint-Cyr workshop of Pierre Daquin, one of the leading figures of the New Tapestry movement in France, and exhibited his work at the Galerie la Demeure. Subsequently, and until 1982, other cartoons were woven by the workshops of the Regional School of Fine Arts in Angers, then by the artist's own daughter, herself a tapestry weaver.

With Daquin as tapestry weaver (and like him in his own works), the material becomes a mode of expression, technical mastery an absolute mastery: the surfaces are animated, vibrant with differences in textures, points…and Morin’s poetic cartoons, with delicately symmetrized signs, are ideally interpreted.