{"id":5874,"date":"2019-04-01T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T22:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2022-12-01T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:56:40","slug":"march-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=5874&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"March for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Summer of Twenty Sixteen. Streets of London. March for Europe.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tapestry, 2019.<\/strong> <br>1m70 x 2m60. Wool.&nbsp;<br>Production Artoth\u00e8que de Vitr\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/euro-tapis-2481a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/euro-tapis-2481a.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/euro-tapis-2481a-330x220.jpg 330w, http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/euro-tapis-2481a-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Summer of Twenty Sixteen. Streets of London. March for Europe. 2019. Tapisserie. Laine. 1m70 x 2m60. Photo David Michael Clarke. \u00a9 ADAGP, Paris 2019 \/ David Michael Clarke.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This tapestry,&nbsp;<em>March For Europe<\/em>&nbsp;was created for the exhibition,&nbsp;<em>Chez soi, demain maintenant<\/em>&nbsp;at the Artoth\u00e8que de Vitr\u00e9 en 2019. The starting point of this exhibition was the celebrated collage,&nbsp;<em>Just what is it that makes today\u2019s homes so different, so appealing ?<\/em>&nbsp;created by Richard Hamilton en 1956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his collage, Hamilton evoked the texture of the carpet by using a quasi-aerial photograph of sun-bathers on Whitley Bay beach, near Newcastle, England. This place resonnated personally for me as my grandma spent her teenage in this town and she told me some of her intrepid stories. Today, most of the aerial photography that I see is either of rock festivals or political demonstrations. In 2016, as this project began, the activists in my home country were busy marching for or against \u00ab\u00a0Brexit\u00a0\u00bb. The pro-Europeans manifested their political allegiance by wearing yellow and blue outfits. I set to drawing one such march, pixel by pixel, and then through collaboration, to weaving a grand tapestry in the town of Felletin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did I choose to make this image as a tapestry ? Well nearly one thousand years ago another great event happened that would define anglo-european relations for a very long time. William, duke of Normandy, attacked King Harold\u2019s army at the battle of Hastings and consequently conquered England. A very long tapestry was made to mark the occasion. It seemed pertinent to me that I should make a tapestry to mark this new moment in our shared history that will also, whatever one\u2019s opinion, redefine anglo-european relations for years, decades, maybe centuries to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also See:<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/en\/at-home-tomorrow-today\/\">At Home, Tomorrow Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer of Twenty Sixteen. Streets of London. March for Europe. Tapestry, 2019. 1m70 x 2m60. Wool.&nbsp;Production Artoth\u00e8que de Vitr\u00e9. 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