Antiope
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
With its label signed, No. 2/4.
1968.
Member of the A.P.C.T. (Association of Cartoonists for 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) subsequently evolved in the 1960s towards a lyrical abstraction that was 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".
More than to mythology, « Antiope » probably refers to astronomy : this asteroid belongs to this dominant inspiration which lasted through the 1960’s and of which “Cosmos” (1968 Strasbourg University) and “Galaxy” (1970, Sénat Palais du Luxembourg) would be the high points. . It can be observed that here, paradoxically, Wogensky tries to express the immensity of Space in a very small format.
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
