Pilot bird
Tapisserie d’Aubusson tissée par l’atelier Legoueix.
Avec son bolduc signé de l’artiste, n°1/6.
1969.
Member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie), Wogensky was one of the many artists who devoted themselves to tapestry following Lurçat, in the immediate post-war period. First influenced by him, Wogensky’s work (159 cartoons after the 1989 exhibition catalogue) then developed in the 1960s toward a lyrical abstraction, not always fully embraced: from cosmic-astronomical themes to decomposed and moving bird forms, toward cartoons that were more refined and less dense. Although he always proclaimed himself a painter, the artist’s reflection on tapestry was highly developed: “Realize a wall cartoon…. it means thinking in relation to a space that no longer belongs to us, because of its dimensions, its scale; it is also the requirement of a broad gesture that transforms and heightens our presence.”
« "Oiseau Pilote" » ("Pilot bird"), in the singular, as the trajectory « chronotissé » in a red azure (cf. « Oiseaux de Midi », or « Envol », from the same year) of a form (a force even!) that guides and directs: so it is to follow…
Bibliographie :
Cat. Expo. Oiseaux solaires, oiseaux marins, tapisseries de Robert Wogensky, Paris, galerie la Demeure, n°12 ill.
Cat. Expo. Robert Wogensky, l’oeuvre tissé, Aubusson, Musée départemental de la tapisserie, 1989
Cat. Expo. Robert Wogensky, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 1989
Cat. Expo. Tissages d’ateliers-tissages d’artistes, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 2004
