Drawing Fashion
Drawing Fashion celebrates a unique collection of some of the most remarkable fashion illustrations from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These original works define the fine art of illustrating fashion, from the collections of Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Poiret as well as Viktor & Rolf, Lacroix and McQueen.
The exhibition showcases fashion illustrators at their creative heights: Lepape at the beginning of the century, Gruau in the 40’s and 50’s, Antonio throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, to current artists Mats Gustafson, Aurore de la Morinerie and Francois Berthoud. Film-clips, music and photography sit alongside the original illustrations to reflect not only the spirit and the style of the decades but also the wider social and cultural changes of the century.
It is the first time this collection, which was put together over the past 30 years by Joelle Chariau of Galerie Bartsch & Chariau, has been displayed. Until March 6th, at the Design Museum of London.
GROUP SHOW: “WANTED”
In cooperation with Two Window Project the janinebeangallery shows the group exhibition “WANTED” featuring new works by the artists Hyuna Kim, Tanja Selzer, Anna-Maria Sommer, Iva Vacheva, Mara Wagenführ and as a special guest Bernard Gilmant. Represented genres will be painting, sculpture, mixed media, video installation and a performance on the evening of the exhibition. Until March 19th at the Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin.
Robert Mapplethorpe’s Retrospective
In this retrospective of his work, C/O Berlin presents 187 photos from the career of Robert Mapplethorpe. The exhibition focuses on the development of his photographic work, represented by examples from the early Polaroids up to the later still-lifes and portraits of Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones, and Patti Smith. From this work it also becomes clear that the scandalous aura surrounding his photographs can only be understood as an aspect of its historical setting, and is thus entirely a matter of the viewer’s interpretation.
The exhibition draws from the collection of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York and is being organized in cooperation with the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf. Until March 27th, C/O Berlin.
Point of View on the Collection: Acts of Presence
What are the specific gestures that forge the creative process? How are they connected to the thought and discourse that underlie the practice? The exhibition highlights, in particular, the notions of gesture, manipulation, taking position and action. The body is a dominant feature, whether through a performative approach, an exercise in self-representation , a visual device that it triggers or controls or a set of processes that reveal its action on the material or in the image even more tangibly. Whatever the underlying paradigms, the works in this exhibition express a commitment by the artists towards the object under study, a direct connection with the material that focuses their attention. Until March 27th, 2011 at the MAC, Montreal.
