4 decades

of haute couture

& textile art

From 28 February to 14 April 2026, The Globe becomes the setting for a rare and uncompromising proposition: four decades of haute couture, monumental textile works and wearable soft sculptures distilled in one orchestrated environment.

MAIN DE DIEU | MAIN DE DIABLE is not a retrospective in the chronological sense. Rather than tracing time, the exhibition collapses it, revealing d'Angelino Tap's oeuvre as a singular meditation on creation itself. Across couture silhouettes, monumental woven tableaux and wearable soft sculptures, a question resounds:

‘Is it the hand of God or the devil that wove the sky on a beautiful morning and placed the sun in it, shining over the waters?’

The questioner is French chanteuse Barbara in her 1964 song 'Chapeau bas'.

It is also the question that preoccupies d'Angelino Tap and inspired the title of this exhibition:

"Is it the Muses who move me, or Mephistopheles who carries me away in a frenzied dance? Is creation a blessing, or seduction? In that field of tension, my work is born."

For d'Angelino Tap, textile is not merely material. It is philosophy made tangible.

"My work consists of textile narratives in which literature, mythology and philosophy coalesce, with needlework as my language. The human condition runs through it like a river across time, across borders."

Couture and textile art as conscience

At a moment when fashion is accelerated to the point of erasure, d'Angelino Tap stands in radical opposition. His couture resists trend, rejects speed and refuses disposability. Exquisitely constructed garments appear alongside monumental tapestries and his Sartorial Statues - wearable soft sculptures that dissolve the boundary between fashion and fine art.

The collection Panta Rhei will be presented in its entirety, previously unveiled during 200 Jaar Koninkrijk, the official bicentenary celebration of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the Vrijthof in Maastricht.



Across the exhibition, textile moves between light and shadow, devotion and rebellion, mastery and surrender. d'Angelino Tap does not offer resolution. He offers tension, and invites the viewer to stand within it.