Jacques BRACHET

An important figure in “the New Tapestry,” woven by Pierre Daquin, exhibited at the La Demeure gallery in the 1970s, Jacques Brachet pursued from the 1950s onwards an innovative and experimental approach to the medium, embodied by the creation of the mural art workshop at the Centre International d’études pédagogiques, in Sèvres, through the staging of “tapestry in France, 1945-1985, living tradition” at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and through the design of his tape-panels (tapisseries-actions) from then to the present day.

Before his explorations in the 1970s, Brachet had designed 6 cartoons in the 1950s, which enjoyed only very relative success (they were all unique works). If the martial theme, and linked to the practice of fencing, was unprecedented, the aesthetics were close to those of other painter-cartoonists of the period, Jullien for example.

Bibliography:
Cat. Exp. Jacques Brachet, mémoires océanes, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, 1996