Vega
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Atelier Legoueix.
bolduc signed by the artist, no. 2/4.
1967.
Member of the A.P.C.T. (Association of Painting- Cartoonists for Tapestry), 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, according to the 1989 exhibition catalog) then evolved during the 1960s toward a lyrical abstraction that was not always fully embraced—ranging from cosmic-astronomical themes to decomposed and moving birdlike forms—toward cartoons that were more refined and less dense. Although he always proclaimed himself a painter, the artist’s thinking about tapestry proved highly developed: “To create a wall cartoon…. is to think in terms of a space that no longer belongs to us, by its dimensions, its scale; it is also the requirement of a broad gesture that transforms and heightens our presence.” “Vega” belongs to Wogensky’s “cosmic” vein (its very title is evidence of this), which ran throughout the 1960s, and of which “Cosmos” (1968, Université de Strasbourg) and “Galaxie” (1970, Sénat, Palais du Luxembourg) were the high points. Drawn-in textures (omnipresent) and flat fields coexisted there in harmonious, subtly nuanced color combinations, in a curious, unknown world—one as close to very small cells seen under a microscope as to the infinitely vast. Bibliography : 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
