Simone Prouvé Untitled 010798
Price on request
Unique
1998
Clevyl, Kanekalon (Synthetic fiber)
160 x 280 x 1 cm
63 x 110.2 x 0.4 in
Simone Prouvé is a French weaver. Born in a family of artists, she is the daughter of Jean Prouvé and granddaughter of Victor Prouvé. Always attracted to weaving, she trained in weaving techniques in Paris, Sweden, and Finland in the 1950s. Working at first with traditional materials, she discovered fire-resistant yarns in the 1990s, thermostable fibers made of stainless steel and other metals or aramid. She successively tried out the properties of Clevyl, Kermel, Dyneema, Kanekalon, flexible or rigid stainless steel, glass fiber, or even optical fiber. A photographer since the 1950s, she draws her inspiration from landscapes or details of factories and disused places. Woven on traditional looms, the panels, superimposed in transparency, transform the landscape in filigree. Between design, architecture, and abstraction, Simone Prouvé's work has joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Location: Paris
Artist
Simone Prouvé
Simone Prouvé was born in Nancy, France in 1931. The daughter of renowned metalworker and architect Jean Prouvé, she was encouraged by her mother Madeleine to learn sewing and weaving, and moved to Paris to intern with Micheline Pingusson (the wife of architect Georges-Henri Pingusson) to learn weaving techniques. In 1953 and 1954, Prouvé travelled to Sweden and then Finland to train under textile artists Astrid Lund and Dora Jung.
