Voyages, le 3e millénaire (Travelling, the 3rd millenium)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Fadat workshop.
With signed certificate, n°1/1.
2000.
Carzou was most noted at the start of his career as a decorative painter (notably for the theatre), and his work for tapestry is relatively rare and only produced by Pierre de Tartas. His style is immediately recognisable in this cartoon, the busy hatching illustrating dream-like subjects : the theme here is a retake on the (only) cartoon by Carzou woven by the Manufactures Nationales, « L’invitation au voyage ». At the dawn of the 3rd millenium (and only a few months before his death), the artist, who was a regular critic of contemporary society, has a singular vision of the future of travel, envisioned as ballooning and sailing ships.
