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To introduce one of Mattia Bonneti's works into a design is to disrupt a framework that is too rigid, too perfect, too symmetrical... It is to repel boredom with the vitality of imbalance. His taste for art craftsmanship, for precious objects, those made with ancient knowledge. Those of the eye and the hand by which he expresses his intoxicating modernity. This series illustrates all this. An indomitable and multiple inspiration that expresses itself in refined objects. Conceived from drawings and even, should we say, elaborated by the drawing, it seemed obvious to us to present with the woven works, the paintings and the drawings of the hand having served for their creation.

Peinture

For this collection, the starting point for each model is a painting. The perspective of re-creation: trying to understand and restore the interest and success of the piece.

Série

For this collection, Marcel Zelmanovitch chose the tapestry and the traditional Aubusson knot. The composition of each model in the series oppose objects with fluid , sharp and thin lines against uncertain, cloudy lines and ill-defined outlines. The tension between the two sets is accentuated by a white background and the contrast between wool and silk.

Lignes Fluides

The creation of this series integrates the practice of "zen" which is characterized by the artist's unintentionality. An approach that gives this composition of "Lignes Fluides" a meditative nature and an autonomous dynamic. In a state of reverie, the mind floats and loses itself, while the hand subtly takes over and surrenders to a random combination of points: a preliminary step to the development of the variation of curves and harmonies that emerge.

Cosmati

Charles Zana proposes four creative plans, rug paintings for the Cosmati collection. He frames the motif in colorful and luminous variations. Made in the crucible of the house Diurne, known for its contemporary language and served by a mastery of high craftsmanship. The demanding interpretation of the work, through an alchemy of the material and the work of the hand is nourished by a network of craftsmen with incomparable know-how. He translates in five times, the mystery of the light, by the vibration of a coloured colored palette. The carpet metamorphoses into a window that introduces a visible space, a secret geometry.

Perroquet

The exceptional fabric of Nepalese rugs suggests a comparison with the parrot’s feathers. Each model presented here is inspired by the plumage of the parrot that gave it its name.

Abstraction Brute

Always inspired by the French abstracts painters of the 1950s and the Primary Arts, Marcel Zemanovitch creates the Abstraction Brute collection. He uses a virgin dyed wool weaving, raw and irregular, composing singular sceneries. These pure lines come to life in silky velvets whose natural nuances evoke the warm presence of animal fur. A simple and strong beauty.

Trames Imaginaires

The frame, the structural line that builds the space, is Luc Deflandre’s central inspiration. He chose this abstract and universal pattern to develop a variety of color versions, of vertical and horizontal lines that cross and overlap each other, that thicken and transform, and eventually end-up changing the space and its volume. Luc Deflandre reinterprets this language exploring different crafted know-how: board wallpapers, hand-painted floor tiles that will be showcased during the exhibition. The “Imaginary Frames” rugs were made using multiple techniques and materials.

Dessus Dessous

The rug has a special way of approaching the question of volume. In the Chinese or French tradition, the effect of depth is sometimes obtained by the « trompe l'œil ». In this "Dessus-Dessous" collection, it is the differences in the fiber’s composition that gives this feeling of layer and therefore of volume: pure silk on top, followed by the mix of wool and silk, on an entirely wool background.

Grand Fleuve

Light is at the heart of all the textile creations of Galerie Diurne. Its very name is a tribute to daylight. Each dawn is a promise of renewal for the curious traveller and enthusiastic creator Marcel Zelmanovitch. The hemp was the material chosen to weave the new edition of the Grand Fleuve rugs: a visual and tactile journey that evokes Africa, its telluric forces, the powers of its contrasts…

Kimono

The creations of the Kimono collection are interpretations of Japanese prints that depict actors from the most popular Kabuki theater in Japan. The shapes are very expressive, the movements are in progress. Kimono rugs recreate this highlight. The flat colors play with transparency, we can guess the calligraphy lines, the light constantly changes the scene: the story is being told before our eyes.

Land

Raphael Navot has been collecting satellite images from all over the world for many years, such as paintings. By selecting from these images a scale, a frame or a time slot, he underlines the singularity of a soil, of a place, unique by its texture, and its colors, reflection of its history and those of the people living there. Naturally each of his works is titled with the name of the place which inspired them, like Boundary Bend (Australia), Liji (Democratic Republic of Congo) or Lineynaya (Russia).

Cali

The confrontation between raw emotion and lightness is reminiscent of the painting of Sam Francis Cali collection honors California’s 70s in its assertive pursuit of independence of pleasure and freedom. The creations of Marcel Zelmanovitch are presented as a birth of the heterogeneous, textile creations where the background and the motifs meet to affirm each other. When they meet, the technique of mixing wool allows them to merge into one another. The visual result is surprising, incisive, precise. These carpets confront us with a game of the artist and his affirmation of freedom in his practice.

Perroquet Tapestries

For this series, Marcel Zelmanovitch chose tapestry and the traditional Aubusson knot. The composition of each model suggests a comparison with the feathers of parrots. Arising from a collection of Parrot rug paintings designed in the mid 1990s these tapestries indicate a shift toward greater freedom in Marcel Zelmanovitch’s creative process. Here the design, guided as it is by planes, lines and curves of varying depth, is a framework able to breathe life into bold, clashing colours.

Origine

In this collection, inspired by primitive mythologies. Marie Bastide weaves the connections between nature and emotion. The colours are jubilant, movement is ubiquitous and light penetrates between the shadows The collection can be qualified as mystical, terrene, baroque. In fact it is a little of all that; Marie Bastide has a gift for injecting a form of brutal instinctive expression into the sophistication of her delicate and elaborate compositions.

Clef

Clef is based on a principle of simple composition, made of squares and rectangles articulated around a vertical symmetry and reminiscent of the facade of very old buildings. Here, the regular alternation of the plates is interrupted by elements of various shapes which bind them together. In the vocabulary of architecture, they are called "clés"

Vitrail

On a principle of simple composition, made of squares and rectangles articulated around a vertical symmetry, Marcel Zelmanovitch created several series. « Vitrail » takes up the rhythm of the "stained glass" by alternating the play of color between transparent and opaque, bright and dark.

Série Tapestries

For this series, Marcel Zelmanovitch has chosen tapestries in the traditional Aubusson flat weave. Each composition of the series' models subtends entities of fluid, fine and clear-cut lines to others with uneven and cloudy lines with vague contours. The tension between the two elements is emphasized by the white background.