Homage to Yukio Mishima
Tapestry woven by the Saint-Cyr workshop.
With its bolduc signed by the artist, n°EA1.
1972.
Major figure of « the New Tapestry », woven by Pierre Daquin, exhibited at the gallery La Demeure in the 1970s, Jacques Brachet pursued an innovative and experimental approach to the medium from the 1950s onward—an approach that was recognized through the creation of the mural arts workshop at the Centre International d’études pédagogiques, in Sèvres, through the staging of « tapestry in France, 1945-1985, the living tradition » at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and through the conception of his action tapestries up to the present day.
Brachet traveled to Japan in 1972. His specifically textile intuitions (in a dissociation from painting)—the invention of forms, the use of new materials, natural themes,…—would find there a renewed direction. Paradoxically, our homage to one of the flamboyant figures with a tragic destiny in Japan after the war remains, « textily », measured: respect for the two dimensions, traditional weaving, in wool,… The colorful motifs (dominated by the red disk of the sun) contrast with the white ground, like a flash of light on the sabre of seppuku.
Bibliography:
n°157.
Cat. Expo. Jacques Brachet, mémoires océanes, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, 1996
