1. chalayan's works in clothing, like afterwords(2000) anf Burka(1996) are often challenging to both wiewers and the wearers. what are your personal responses to these works? are afterwords and burka fashion of are they art? what is teh difference? not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?
1st time I saw these works I shocked, because normal feeling to clothing is fashion show, new and classic style designed by fashion designers whole over the world, but hussein's works just like conbination of pieces and really is a tough challeng to my thoughts and feeling.
Like the introduction of the Paris' Les Arts Decoratifs opened " Fashion Narratives " said:" fans and industry icons alike flocked to the opening -- kindly showing their affection and loyalty to Hussein's works." Each time he has exhibition, must be titled "art and fashion", as you can see, his pieces already jump out of basic fashion conception, it is more like architectures in clothing, and also would rather collect it at home or museum, not weat it walk in the street.
According to Designboom (2006), in the interview, Hussein be asked "do you discuss your work with other fashion designers", he answered "yes but not really in depth, i like talking with architects because we speak a similar language".
Web(http://www.tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/):
"art and design were more closely tied at the turn of the 20th century than they are today, artists did not see the difference between creating an original work of art, such as a painting and designing a textile patten that would be reproduced many times over, each was a valid creative act in their eyes."
I think fashion is an art form which is decorative, some critics call it "applied art", art is a bit conception, fashion designer need amount of artistic expression goes into clothes, they dont have huge distinction but they are different.
Fashion, a general term of a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear or accessories. What makes fashion fashion, I think is the fashion trend, because the trend always can define it is fashionable or nfashionable.
2. chalayan has strong links to industry, pieces like The Level Tunnel(2006) and Repose(2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by commercial business, in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal munufacturer. how does this impact on the naturel of chalayan's work? does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? is it still art?
Chalayan's work lay stress on nature. The Level Tunnel is a 15m long, 5m high installation that can be experienced from the exterior or blindfolded on the inside, also play with scent, touch and sound, and the sound made from vodka bottles.
Also chalayan had collaboration with Swarovski, the collection forcuses on hybrid of cultures culminating with a special museum piece the Floating Dress.
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influencesand affects one or more of the senses, emotions and intellect. Traditionally the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery, and the conception 1st time changed during the Romantic period, it is more with religion and science. Thse days the meaning of art change again, it involes selling, buying, pecuniary trend, but it still art, still can effect human society.
Detail of shoes Ready to wear collecton London fashion show Winter2008
3. Chalayan's film Absent Persence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale.If features the process of caring for worn clothes and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements, can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired chalayan's approach?
Absent Persence
Absent Persence is a video installation telling a story based on identity, geography, genetics, biology and anthropology. It questions whether the extent to which identities can adapt to new environment. I think it has been influenced by Impressionism, Humanism and Industralism. Chalayan took the idea of DNA and analysing it, this movement was very technological and scientific, it represented the process in doing something in human's DNA thus learn more and help more about wearer, humanism become visible. With Inpressionism the DNA traces of the use of clothes give scientist impressions to increase the quality of wearing. To Industralism I think its because whatever we improved, discovered or impressed, the society need economy, then Tndustralism engaged.
4. many of chalayan's pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else, for example, sculptor Long Sigurdson made some works from Chalayan's Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol's pop art was largely produced in a new york collective called The Factory and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarilly, Damien Hirst doesnt personally build his vitriness and preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?
echoform
Any exhibition or fashion show cant present by artists or designers themselves, all successes depend on well cooperation, maybe hundreds or thousands people involved. But the artist made some pieces personally is also occupied a very important part in whole, the ideas, materils, forms etc should have a basic constructure by artist, I think it should be done from beginning of the exhibition or fashion show, also in the half to finish, artist need check again which means no discuss or outside interruption, just use art sense and sensertive feeling.
before minus now
Design Museum exhibition Hussein Chalayan Works 1994--2009
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