Tapestry by Ginette and Daniel Taggart, France, 1970s

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Rare wall tapestry signed by the artists Ginette and Daniel Taggart, France circa 1970
Materials dyed cotton and natural sisal … Read more Rare wall tapestry signed by the artists Ginette and Daniel Taggart, France circa 1970
Materials dyed cotton and natural sisal fibers.
Dimensions 133cm•69cm
Signed lower right of the work

This wall tapestry, signed Daniel Taggart and created in the 1970s, reflects the unique approach of the Taggart workshop, where textile art becomes sculpture.
The materials, simple and natural – wool, jute and sisal are worked with a mastery that transcends their apparent rusticity.
The golden fibers, twisted and looped, create a moving composition, as if the work were alive, evoking natural or abstract shapes.

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Ginette and Daniel Taggart, artisans and artists, were essential figures in the textile scene of the 1960s and 1970s.
Based in France, they have been able to breathe new modernity into an ancient tradition, combining manual know-how and an avant-garde spirit.
Their aesthetic, deeply rooted in the use of raw materials such as sisal or jute, reflects an era when the quest for simplicity and naturalness responded to galloping industrialization. This choice of materials was not just a fashion effect: it reflected an ecological sensitivity ahead of its time, a return to basics, almost militant.
Their work is part of a particular moment in the history of textile art, where creators like Sheila Hicks or Magdalena Abakanowicz reinvented the codes of weaving.
At that time, textile art was no longer a simple decorative complement: it became an autonomous language, halfway between sculpture and painting.
The Taggart works, while deeply rooted in this modernist spirit, possess a warmth and poetry of their own.
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