Pilot Bird
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
With its label signed by the artist, No. 1/6.
1969.
Member of the A.P.C.T. (Association of Painters-Cartonists of Tapestry), Wogensky is one of the many artists who devoted themselves to tapestry following Lurçat, in the immediate post-war period. Initially influenced by him, Wogensky's work (159 cartoons according to the 1989 exhibition catalog) later evolved in the 1960s towards a lyrical abstraction not always fully assumed, from cosmic-astronomical themes to decomposed and moving bird forms, towards more refined and less dense cartoons. Although he always proclaimed himself a painter, the artist's reflection on tapestry is very accomplished: "Creating a mural cartoon... is thinking in terms of a space that no longer belongs to us, by its dimensions, its scale, it is also the requirement of a broad gesture that transforms and accentuates our presence".
« Pilot Bird », in the singular, like the « chronotissed » trajectory in a red azure (cf. « Birds of Midi », or « Takeoff », from the same year) of a form (a force even!) that guides and orients: to follow therefore…
Bibliography:
Cat. Expo. Robert Wogensky, the woven work, Aubusson, Departmental Museum of Tapestry, 1989
Cat. Expo. Robert Wogensky, Angers, Jean Lurçat Museum and Contemporary Tapestry, 1989
Cat. Expo. Weavings from artist-weavers workshops, Angers, Jean Lurçat Museum and Contemporary Tapestry, 2004
