Semagram series : Sémagramme 218

Semagram series: Sémagramme 218 – exhibition

Semagram series: Sémagramme 218 – final

Semagram series: Sémagramme 218 – detail

Semagram series: Sémagramme 218 – detail

Semagram series
Format: 71 cm x 137 cm – 2ft 4in x 4ft 6in
Weight: 0.510 g – 1 lb 2 oz
Date: 2020 – 2022
No. 218.2022.2

Technique: Hand-stitched and hand-quilted as three layers including one that’s back-to-front and one silk core
2,418 textile squares 3-cm wide

Description: As for works in the Moments series, the Sémagrammes reprise the lines of force in a photographic collage by Karl Hermann Haupt, a Bauhaus student from the early 20th century.

In this Semagrams series, the decision to reduce both the colour palette and the format augments the visual effect. More vibrant, the composition with its criss-cross gentian blue lines seems to be imbued with tension.

Central to the composition, two drawings from the original block are complete, surrounded by ten partial blocks, suggesting the full deployment of the drawing.

The off-centre concentric quilted spokes enhances the dynamic effect and holds the three layers together.

Exhibition
Pays de Mauriac media library – Auvergne 2022, France