A Meeting of Contemporary Art and Exceptional Craftsmanship
The collaboration between Vangart, Irish artist Genieve Figgis, and international gallery Almine Rech delves into a deep exploration of the boundaries between painting, reproduction, and craftsmanship.
Known for her grotesque, fluid, and satirical compositions, Genieve Figgis creates immediately recognizable paintings where human figures seem to dissolve into the material. Her universe, often inspired by classical art history, is here reinterpreted in an unexpected form: contemporary embroidery.
This collaboration marks an important step in Vangart's research into the materialization of images and the dialogue between traditional techniques and contemporary practices.
Genieve Figgis: An Aesthetic of Mastered Deformation
Genieve Figgis's work is renowned for its ability to deconstruct the codes of classical painting. Her figures appear in constant motion, almost liquefied, creating a tension between elegance and strangeness.
By collaborating with Vangart, this aesthetic takes on a new dimension: painting becomes texture, thread, relief.
Embroidery thus extends her visual language into a physical material, where each stitched line translates the original fluidity of her pictorial gesture.
Embroidery as a Contemporary Medium
Through this edition, Vangart explores embroidery not as a decorative technique, but as an artistic language in its own right.
Each work becomes a material translation of digital and pictorial painting, where thread replaces the brush.
This approach highlights several key dimensions:
- the slowness of the artisanal gesture versus the speed of the digital image
- the materiality of the thread as an extension of the pictorial line
- the transformation of the image into a unique and tactile object
Embroidery here becomes a hybrid work, blending contemporary art and traditional savoir-faire.
Almine Rech x Vangart: Demanding Curatorial Vision
The Almine Rech gallery, known for its commitment to major artists on the international contemporary scene, supports this collaboration.
This partnership underscores a shared desire to propose projects at the intersection of gallery, artistic production, and technical experimentation.
It represents a dialogue between three universes:
- the gallery's conceptual approach
- Genieve Figgis's artistic vision
- Vangart's production expertise
A Unique Piece Between Two Worlds
This collaboration gives birth to a work that transcends traditional categories: neither classical painting nor simple reproduction, but an artistic object in its own right.
Each piece becomes a textile interpretation of Genieve Figgis's universe, translated with precision and sensitivity by the Vangart teams.
Vangart: Between Innovation and Craftsmanship
With this project, Vangart confirms its position in the contemporary art landscape as a hybrid player, capable of transforming the works of international artists into unique material pieces.
By combining technical innovation and respect for artistic gesture, the brand continues to explore new forms of artistic production.