Jorj MORIN

Having established himself in the 1930’s in the region around Nantes, Morin worked as an artist in  advertising as well as painting and engraving, at first in a figurative style and then evolving towards abstraction from 1954 onwards. His interest in monumental art is revealed in his use of mosaic (particularly within the framework  of the government  1% subsidy for art in works produced for schools of the greater Nantes area) but also in tapestry.  As early as 1952 he received the first commissions for religious-themed works which would be produced by the Plasse le Caisne workshop (who also worked for Manessier, Le Moal…), before collaborating with Pierre Daquin’s Atelier de Saint-Cyr, a major player in the French movement for la Nouvelle Tapisserie, and having several pieces exhibited at the Demeure gallery. From then onwards, until 1982, other designs would be produced by the workshops of the Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts in Angers, and later by the artist’s own daughter who was herself a weaver.

In his collaboration with Daquin (as in the latter’s own works) the medium became one with the message, the technical mastery was absolute : the surfaces are animated and vibrant with a complexity of different textures and stitches… and Morin’s poetic designs with their delicately symetrical signs, found an ideal expression.