LE PRINTEMPS EST POUR APRES DEMAIN: RENAUD AUGUSTE-DORMEUIL

Le printemps est pour après-demain features new works from Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil's series Hope it was worth it in which the artist works with historic Aubusson tapestries from the 16th to 18th centuries. The artist learns the dates of the creation of these historic pieces, and then reworks the tapestries to overlay a map of the stars from the exact date of a historic event that coincides with the time of the tapestry’s creation. New works in the exhibition incorporate the skies at the time of the last view of Halley’s comet during its passage over Lisbon on June 22nd, 1759; the last great eruption of the volcano in Mount Fuji in 1707; or the sky over London on June 29 1613 when a fire broke out in the Globe theater during the performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. The tranquil scenes rendered in thread are suddenly interwoven with echoes of the great movements of history.

The series continues the artist’s ongoing poetic engagement with our intertwine with the cosmos, the ephemerality of our eons and a constant play of scale, tragedy, drama, and the quiet observation of the stars above.