Collection of Le Corbusier tapestries goes on display at Almine Rech Gallery
Almine Rech Gallery in New York has launched its Nomadic Murals show featuring the tapestries of Swiss-French architect and designer Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier.
The gallery collected five of the tapestries, of which only 30 were made, to show for the exhibition named Nomadic Murals.
Almine Rech is showing a series of tapestries and studies done by architect Le Corbusier
All the tapestries are woven representations of paintings completed by Le Corbusier, who was known for his artistic endeavours that included speculative drawings and figurative paintings.
The works were called "nomadic" because of the ability to bring the tapestries from place to place or to move them to suit the needs of specific interiors. The tapestries are based on drawings done by the architect
"I think it's important to show how deeply he was interested, concerned with, and creative in taking care of interior architecture," said gallery founder Almine Rech.
"The tradition of tapestry is very interesting, based on the idea that your 'mural' will easily travel," she told Dezeen.
Le Corbusier first entertained the possibility of having his work represented as tapestries in 1936 from his interaction with art entrepreneur Marie Cuttoli, and 12 years later he contributed the art for his first, a practice he continued until he died in 1965.
He began his work in tapestries in 1948
The tapestries in the collection were produced by textile artist Pier...
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