Guimarães (Portugal), Musée Alberto Sampaio / Contextile Contemporary Textile Art Biennial

The exhibition Tapisseries nomades draws on the Fondation Toms Pauli contemporary collection. To be presented at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, it will retrace the medium’s evolution from the 1960s to the 2000s: from classical wall tapestry to textile sculpture and from decoration to installation. 
Comprising thirty works, some of them on a monumental scale, the exhibition reveals an almost unknown aspect of the canton’s 20th-century collection, in a range of works by Lurçat, Abakanowicz, Buić, de Amaral, Delaunay, Giauque and Agano. These pioneers of the postwar tapestry revival played a significant part in redefining textile art as a major expressive form.