Tote bag
Adrien Vescovi

Since its opening, the Foundation has commissioned several works that integrate the house. After Lionel Estève, Valérie Mannaerts, Alex Cecchetti, the duo Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize the foundation invites the artist Adrien Vescovi to create two textile mural installations for both of the Foundation’s houses in Brussels and Arles.

As an extension of this order, Adrien Vescovi created a tote bag in the spirit of his mural work.

Adrien Vescovi’s work consists of displacements and infusions of landscapes on malleable textile fibre materials (linen canvases, sheets). Made from decoctions of plants or minerals, ochres and earths, the dyeing takes over from the painting. The painting process consists of exhausting the colour by successive rinses or by the multiple meteorological transformations of the canvases exposed to the vagaries of atmospheric impulses (sunlight, rain, wind, pollution, etc.). Working in the manner of an alchemist, his method is inspired by skills that require an almost scientific and intuitive knowledge of the material.

The Soleil Blanc project on which he is working is a narrative made up of different stages or series. The title of this project comes from the memory of the sun reverberating off the snow, a childhood memory of dazzling, saturating light.