Square sun
"Tapisserie d'Aubusson tissée par l'Atelier Pinton.\nAvec son bolduc signed de l'artiste, n°EX-A.\nCirca 1965."
With its bolduc Signed by the artist, n°EX-A.
Circa 1965.
Matégot, first a decorator, then creator of objects and furnishings (an activity he renounced in 1959), met François Tabard in 1945, and provided him with his first Cartoons, at first figurative and then soon abstract, from the 1950s onward. He became a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie) in 1949, took part in numerous international exhibitions (Matégot, like Lurçat before him, would prove to be an indefatigable activist for tapestry), responded to many public commissions, sometimes monumental ("Rouen", 85 m2 for the prefecture of Seine-Maritime, but also tapestries for Orly, for the Maison de la Radio, for the IMF…) and produced no fewer than 629 Cartoons up to the 1970s. In 1990, the Matégot Foundation for contemporary tapestry was inaugurated in Bethesda, in the United States. Matégot formed part, along with other artists such as Wogensky, Tourlière or Prassinos, of those who decisively steered wool toward abstraction—lyrical at first, then geometric in the 1970s—by exploiting different technical aspects of the craft: gradations, beatings, pricks, tiny dots…
"Square Sun" (an oxymoron) likewise illustrates Matégot's style in the mid-1960s, where shadows and lights confront one another: from the upper right part of the tapestry, irradiating colors disperse the darkness in a concentric way.
Bibliographie :
Cat. Exp. Matégot, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 1990-1991
Patrick Favardin, Mathieu Matégot, Editions Norma, 2014
