Le périscope (the periscope)

 

 

Aubusson tapestry woven in the Pinton workshop.
With signed label, n°1/6.
1971.

 

 

 

 

“First of all I like wool, its warmth…In tapestry, I can use both colour and graphic design”  wrote the artist in “Sculpture”, Paris, 1968. Better known as a sculptor, Gilioli would design his first cartoon in 1949, before winning in 1957 the Tapestry Prize at the Biennial in Sao Paulo ; in all he designed around a hundred tapestries, woven by the Pinton and Picaud workshops.

 

From the end of the 1960’s onwards Gilioli’s cartoons are exclusively geometrical, use two or three colours and evolve in parallel with the forms employed in other media.
Our tapestry reproduces, on a smaller scale, the mosaic designed a few years earlier by the artist for the building “Le Périscope,” a project by Novarina in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

 

Bibliography :
Exhibition catalogue Gilioli, Paris, Galerie la Demeure, 1971
Exhibition catalogue Des sculpteurs et la Tapisserie, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 1995
Exhibition catalogue Gilioli Tapisseries, Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny, 1997