EXHIBITION
MAIN DE DIEU
MAIN DE DIABLE
Peter George d'Angelino Tap
28 February - 14 April 2026
The Globe
Waldorpstraat The Hague
Following more than four decades of unwavering commitment to haute couture and autonomous textile art, artist and couturier Peter George d'Angelino Tap presents his most comprehensive and substantial exhibition to date.
4 decades
of haute couture
& textile art
Open Friday - Sunday
12:00 - 17:00
and by appointment
EXHIBITION
MAIN DE DIEU
MAIN DE DIABLE
Peter George d'Angelino Tap
28 February - 14 April 2026
The Globe
Waldorpstraat The Hague
Open Friday - Sunday
12:00 - 17:00
and by appointment
4 decades
of haute couture
& textile art
Following more than four decades of unwavering commitment to haute couture and autonomous textile art, artist and couturier Peter George d'Angelino Tap presents his most comprehensive and substantial exhibition to date.
MAIN DE DIEU
MAIN DE DIABLE
Exhibition dates:
28 February - 14 April 2026
Opening hours:
Friday - Sunday, 12:00 - 17:00
and by appointment
Location:
The Globe
Waldorpstraat, The Hague
Free entrance
In collaboration with Triple A Projects
The Globe in The Hague 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 textile environment.
MAIN DE DIEU | MAIN DE DIABLE is not a retrospective in the chronological sense. Rather than tracing time, the exhibition collapses it, presenting 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.
"My works are textile narratives in which literature, mythology and philosophy all find expression, with needlework as my language. The human condition runs through it like a river across time, across borders."
Couture and textile art
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 lead couture into the domain of fine art.
200 Jaar Koninkrijk
The collection Panta Rhei is 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. The forty-five couture creations form part of a massive tapestry installation in what is its first public showing since..
Across the exhibition, textile moves between light and shadow, devotion and rebellion, mastery and surrender, with d'Angelino Tap never feeling the need to dilute either and offer resolution.
Location as statement
The choice of The Globe is deliberate. Situated in a part of The Hague in an area in constant transformation, it resonates with the exhibition's central dualities: past and future, rawness and refinement, austerity and seduction. The exhibition runs until 14 April.
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NOS.nl: Kunstenaar maakt modeproject voor Koninkrijksviering Maastricht
2014 Het kunst- en modeproject van Peter George d'Angelino Tap maakt deel uit van de viering van 200 jaar Koninkrijk in Maastricht. In zijn modecreaties en wandkleden verbeeldt hij Europese thema's.
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 textile environment.
MAIN DE DIEU | MAIN DE DIABLE is not a retrospective in the chronological sense. Rather than tracing time, the exhibition collapses it, presenting 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.
"My works are textile narratives in which literature, mythology and philosophy all find expression, with needlework as my language. The human condition runs through it like a river across time, across borders."
Couture and textile art
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 lead couture into the domain of fine art.
200 Jaar Koninkrijk
The collection Panta Rhei is 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. The forty-five couture creations form part of a massive tapestry installation in what is its first public showing since..
Across the exhibition, textile moves between light and shadow, devotion and rebellion, mastery and surrender, with d'Angelino Tap never feeling the need to dilute either and offer resolution.
Location as statement
The choice of The Globe is deliberate. Situated in a part of The Hague in an area in constant transformation, it resonates with the exhibition's central dualities: past and future, rawness and refinement, austerity and seduction.
Exhibition dates:
28 February - 14 April 2026
Opening hours:
Friday - Sunday, 12:00 - 17:00
and by appointment
Location:
The Globe
Waldorpstraat, The Hague
In collaboration with Triple A Projects
NederlandWerktDoor.TV: live vanuit Huis ter Duin
MAIN DE DIEU MAIN DE DIABLE
Haute couture
& fine art photography
Fine art photographers Rene Lauffer, Renata Dutrée, Erik Hup and Niek Verschoor present a selection of works featuring haute couture of Peter George d'Angelino Tap alongside the retrospective. These include autonomous photography projects, as well as collaborative series originally developed for earlier exhibitions.
Rene Lauffer
Renata Dutrée
