2nd Prize – Contemporary Creation Call 2011

Creation – Marc Bauer, Swiss artist born in 1975, living and working in Germany (Berlin). Weaving – Patrick Guillot Workshop, Aubusson, 2013 Low-warp tapestry, cotton warp, wool, cotton, silk, lurex weft Dimensions: 3.60 m high x 3 m wide Colors – approximately 50 colors, dyed by Thierry Roger, Aubusson (chemical dye)

Marc Bauer is a draftsman who uses the past, both collective and individual history, to invent a subjective rewriting. “I see my drawings as a kind of archaeology that attempts, sometimes with humor, sometimes with despair, to bring up emotions and events.” Marc Bauer uses various media: paper, wall, tapestry, film, aluminum, etc. His colors are mostly those of charcoal and black ink.

For Melancholia I, the artist redrew the famous Melancholy by the German painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer, dated 1514, often called "Bild der Bilder" in Germany, "the image of images." The work is part of a research project focused on the deconstruction of drawing. Playing with scales and materials, the artist transposes the original drawing to tapestry while modifying it and subjecting it to the constraints of the technique used. To give it "a second emotional layer," the tapestry was meant to be deconstructed itself, with signs of wear, a true psychological and technical challenge for a weaver.

Woven by the Patrick Guillot workshop in Aubusson, the tapestry was completed on November 22, 2013.