The 6 words of the secret
Aubusson tapestry woven by Pinton workshop.
With its signed ribbon, No. 1/1.
2001.
In 1987, Texier received a commission for the Hangings of Human Rights, for the bicentenary of the Revolution. The choice is unexpected, the artist, still young, having never before provided tapestry cartoons. It makes it possible to federate the Aubusson workshops still in activity, the 7 tapestries of the hangings totaling more than 130 m² woven with literal quotations (the tables of the declaration are reproduced identically to the engraving of the revolutionary era), oscillating objects, signs, texts….
Subsequently, Texier will continue to provide cartoons, both for the National Manufactures (a suite of 3 tapestries, a carpet) and for Aubusson. Our cartoon reprises the plastic signs, the sparse texts, the traces specific to the graphic and plastic universe of the artist, which constitute, to quote him, "maps where [he] introduces piloting elements", so that the eponymous "secret" is revealed to us.
Bibliography :
The Suite of Human Rights, Niort, 1989
