Gilioli Emile

          "First of all, I love wool, its warmth... In tapestry, I can use color and graphics..." wrote the artist in "La sculpture," Paris, 1968. Best known as a sculptor, Gilioli created his first cartoon in 1949, before winning the Tapestry Prize at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1957. He went on to create around a hundred tapestries, woven by the Pinton and Picaud workshops.   From the late 1960s onwards, Gilioli's cartoons were exclusively geometric, two- or three-color, and parallel to the forms he explored in other media. Our tapestry reproduces, on a smaller scale, the mosaic designed a few years earlier by the artist for the "Le Périscope" building, designed by Novarina in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Bibliography: Exhibition catalog: Gilioli, Paris, Galerie la Demeure, 1971 Exhibition catalog: Des sculpteurs et la Tapisserie (Sculptors and Tapestry), Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 1995 Exhibition catalog: Gilioli Tapisseries, Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny, 1997