Thomas Renwart (Les Monseigneurs)
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The Ghent-based artist Thomas Renwart (1995) studied textile design at the LUCA in Ghent where he graduated in July 2019. Initially, as one half of the duo 'Les Monseigneurs' - together with graphic designer Victor Verhelst - but these days Renwart operates on his own. He has carpets woven in traditional Belgian and Dutch weaving mills - using local jacquard looms - which he designs himself and which evoke an emotion that holds the middle between melancholy and romanticism: botanical gardens, psychedelic fantasy creatures, poetic and/or humorous sayings, flowers and bulbs, grains and suns hang on the wall like paintings and breathe the atmosphere of a bygone era. Les Monseigneurs are often inspired by paintings by the Old Masters such as Van Eyck, but these 'vertical gardens' are an ode to Flemish tapestry and Gobelin weaving from the late Middle Ages: they are intimate, magical and personal, infused with humor, subtlety and a strong splash of psychedelics.
Residual yarn made from different types of fibres - such as cotton, flax, wool or viscose - is processed in the carpets. In this way these unused materials are given a meaningful destination. As Les Monseigneurs put it: 'In a playful way we try to bring a piece of the beauty of nature indoors.' And that is exactly what spring does: it shows us the beauty of nature.
(BruthausGallery)