textile installation
Locus Classicus
at ART THE HAGUE
I Aion, Sartorial Statue, 2025
II Omne Vivum ex Vivo, 12-panel tapestry, 2025
III The Kozyrev Mirror, 2025
LOCUS CLASSICUS is a three-part, circular textile installation on time: temporal fields at once participatory, reflective, linear and simultaneous. At its centre stands Aion, embodied as a wearable sculpture of cloth strips and empty timepieces. Viewers are invited to mark their own place in time by inserting medallions that commemorate the most recent birth and death within their lives. The installation is framed by a twelve-panel tapestry, where the masculine and feminine appear as storied dual forces of life and death, and is shaped by a Kozyrev Mirror, a device said to distort space and time.
Viewed as a single installation, it invites viewers to contemplate an altered temporal field, where time is at once participatory, reflective, linear and simultaneous.
How to participate
Empty watchcases wait to be filled with medallions. On each medallion, you are invited to inscribe the most recent birth and death in your life. These gestures locate your point in time. Alone, they are personal. Together, they form intersecting linear timelines: a web of connection that reflects the shared cartography of human existence.
By contributing your mark, you take part in a collective work of remembrance, belonging and connection.
Add your time mark
A keepsake of your participation
Following the fair, you will receive a commemorative digital collection, including the following:
- A high-resolution photograph of the complete installation
- A detail image capturing the medallions within the work
- A personal note from artist Peter George d'Angelino Tap reflecting on the piece and its presence at Art The Hague.
This offering is both a keepsake of your participation and a gesture of thanks for becoming part of this work.
Thank you
Your presence enriches this installation. Each medallion adds to the dialogue of memory and presence, and contributes to a resonant, collective expression.
By joining this experience, you are also welcomed into our community, receiving privileged access to future exhibitions, artist insights and invitations to previews.. An opportunity to remain connected to this evolving conversation.
An invitation to support the retrospective
4 decades of haute couture
and textile art
a retrospective exhibition
with your support
Main de Dieu — Main de Diable
A major retrospective
After more than four decades of creating haute couture and textile art, I am honoured to present my oeuvre in a major retrospective. Thanks to the support of Triple A Projects, the exhibition will be held in The Hague from 22 November 2025 to mid-January 2026.
This retrospective represents a culmination of a lifetime of work and an opportunity to experience the full scope of my oeuvre in a single, curated presentation. I invite you to become part of bringing this extraordinary project to life.
Exclusive creations from our atelier
Your support directly contributes to the production and presentation of the exhibition. In gratitude, we offer six exclusive patron rewards, designed for collectors and connoisseurs:
- Original design drawings, signed and framed
- Single edition Embroidery Art panels
- Unique home cushions from my Home Couture collection
A patron's reward - host a monumental artwork
And for those wishing to make a grander gesture: there are exclusive opportunities to have a monumental work of your choice on loan, either at home or in your company, after the exhibition. A valuable chance to enrich your private or professional surroundings with monumental, museum-quality works of art.
ABOUT
PETER GEORGE
d'ANGELINO TAP
ARTIST • COUTURIER • DESIGNER
Peter George d’Angelino Tap is a Dutch designer, couturier and textile artist who is based in The Hague. His oeuvre is situated at the nexus of haute couture and textile art, and is distinguished by 'material storytelling': a sensory, textile exploration of the human experience.
He is best known for his Sartorial Statues — wearable soft sculptures that bring haute couture to the realm of visual art — and monumental tapestries centred on themes such as nature, ritual, and transformation. His work reflects Thomas Carlyle's notion that life is "a living garment, woven and ever-a-weaving in the loom of time".
d'Angelino Tap's couture has been worn by piano duo Lucas & Arthur Jussen, pop artist Vangelis (longstanding collaborator with Boy George), conductor Nicholas Collon and writer and presenter Splinter Chabot, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Kunstmuseum and Panorama Mesdag in The Hague, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
