Chansons Grises – Poemes Pourpres, a triple location exposition by Peter George d’Angelino Tap.
From the 17th of October 2015 until the 20th march 2016 at Panorama Mesdag, The Mesdag collection museum and the Louis Couperus Museum at The Hague.
Life presentation of the collection on the 21st November at Atrium –town Hall The Hague.
Artist and fashion designer Peter George d’Angelino Tap combines the grey works by Mesdag and the colourful art of Van Gogh with poetry and music in a visual and auditive display of garments and objects in three expositions at three separate venues.
Chansons Grises is the title of a song-cycle composed by Reynaldo Hahn, the lyrics for the songs are poems by Paul Verlaine. From this cycle Peter George d’Angelino Tap derived the guideline and the title for his upcoming series of Sartorial Statues, tableware and embroidered chairs.
2015 celebrates the work of two Dutch painters Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Vincent Van Gogh. The works of these important artists, who worked in the same era as Reynaldo Hahn will, amongst others, be highlighted in the collection. Hendrik Willem Mesdag was a painter of seascapes in fading monochromes where Vincent Van Gogh imagined everyday (grey) subjects in an explosion of colour and texture.
Chansons Grises in Panorama Mesdag
Searching for the basic form of the garments Peter George d’Angelino Tap found the visual abstraction in the work Charles Nerée to Babberich. Work by this draughtsman show abstractions and interpretations of clothes from the Belle Époque period. Nerée’s composition and detailing make his work into interesting starting point for patterns and cuts. The works that inspired the cuts will be shown, next to the coloured specimen, in white and black.
Poemes Pourpres in Couperus Museum
The texts of Verlaine give anchor points for the selection from works of the oeuvre of Van Gogh and Mesdag. Counterparts to the poems of Paul Velaine where found in the work of Louis Couperus.
Seven of his poems are the inspiration of seven major tapestries, they depict a panorama a whole story, the story of the measure of life, the threat that is spun during our life and that will be cut upon our demise eventually enabling our rebirth.
The poems by Verlaine and Couperus will be embroidered on chairs as will the interpretation of the drawings by De Neree, and their counterparts, the design sketches by Peter George d’Angelino Tap. Music composed for the occasion will be played.
Tableware in Mesdag Collection Museum
At the Mesdag Collection museum the series of tableware will be on display . Two tables will show the visual contrast derived from the works of Van Gogh and Mesdag.
