Le verger (the orchard)
Tapestry woven by the Braquenié workshop.
With label.
1965.
Representing the prolific Belgian school of modern tapestry, Mary Dambiermont, is one of its most sensitive protagonists whose work is resolutely figurative. She made her tapestry début at the age of 24 in 1956 and that led her to a close collaboration with the Braquenié establishment in 1958 and from there to two participations in the Biennales de tapisserie in Lausanne in 1962 and 1965.
The world she inhabits is a singular place peopled with hieratic figures, often feminine who inhabit dream-like landscapes which are strange and occasionally troubling. This cartoon, shown at the biennale in Lausanne, is a development of the contemporary theme of enclosure (20 works exhibited in 1966), which is itself an echo of the mediaeval « hortus conclusus ».
Bibliography :
Cat. Expo. 2e biennale internationale de la tapisserie, Lausanne, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, 1965, ill. p.19
Paul Caso, Mary Dambiermont, Editions Arts et voyages, 1975, ill p.42-43
