Lausanne, Espace Arlaud

Lausanne has not forgotten the International Tapestry Biennials, held from 1962 to 1995, which made it the world capital of contemporary textile art. Working with Jean Lurçat, Pierre Pauli was one of the main instigators of these events. When he died in 1970, an association was created in his name by a group of prominent international and Swiss artists who endowed it with an important collection of works.

There are very few contemporary textile-art collections in Europe. The one created by the Pierre Pauli Association was implicitly constituted to focus attention on the revolution that was taking place in textile art in the second half of the twentieth century, and to group together the various trends: tapestries, reliefs, sculptures and environments.

Exhibition of 40 contemporary works from the Pierre Pauli Association, donated to the newly created Fondation Toms Pauli. Catalogue in French, English and German