Trampling art with your feet. Moving art from the walls where it had officially taken up residence – canvas or tapestry – to the ground: a vision no longer vertical but horizontal. Painting laid off? Far from being revolted, many artists have played the game, accepted, over the course of the 20th century, to see their works transposed into carpets. Very often, there was only one step left to take, these same artists having generally enthusiastically accompanied their metamorphosis into a carpet...
