Vega
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
Bolduc signed by the artist, no. 2/4.
1967.
A member of the APCT (Association of Tapestry Cartoon Painters), Wogensky is one of the many artists who devoted themselves to tapestry following in Lurçat's footsteps in the immediate post-war period. Initially influenced by Lurçat, Wogensky's work (159 cartoons according to the 1989 exhibition catalog) evolved in the 1960s towards a lyrical abstraction, not always fully embraced, moving from cosmic-astronomical themes to decomposed and dynamic bird forms, towards more refined and less dense cartoons. While he always proclaimed himself a painter, the artist's reflection on tapestry is highly developed: “Creating a wall cartoon… means thinking in terms of a space that no longer belongs to us, by its dimensions, its scale; it also requires a broad gesture that transforms and accentuates our presence.”.
"Vega" belongs to Wogensky's "cosmic" vein (its very title attests to this), which runs throughout the 1960s, and of which "Cosmos" (1968, University of Strasbourg) and "Galaxie" (1970, Senate, Luxembourg Palace) would be the high points. Mottled (omnipresent) and flat colors coexist in nuanced color harmonies, in a curious, unknown world, as close to the very small cells seen under a microscope as to the infinitely large.
Bibliography:
Exhibition catalog, Robert Wogensky, The Woven Work, Aubusson, Departmental Museum of Tapestry, 1989;
Exhibition catalog, Robert Wogensky, Angers, Jean Lurçat Museum and Contemporary Tapestry, 1989
