Events
10/20/09
Federico Fellini
To
attempt to put on a Fellini exhibition means to go back to the sources of
Fellini’s art and studying and revealing its processes of transformation,
alteration, borrowing and accumulation. The result is a set of strata combining
filmic elements, photographic documents, magazine presentations of the event,
TV images and works by artists.
This
exhibition is resolutely multidisciplinary. It sets out to offer a new grid for
reading Fellini’s films.
The event
and the historical fact, History and anecdote, biography and fiction are the
materials that, by means of confrontations, echoes and dialogues, Fellini used
to built his distinctive narratives and original visual environments.
Showing
the creative context of Fellini’s work in an exhibition means showing the
nature of his creative mechanisms.
The
exhibition at the Jeu de Paume affords a glimpse of Fellini’s creative
mechanisms by showing his unique ability for absorbing the real.
It
comprises mainly photographs and drawings by Fellini, original film posters,
period magazines and excerpts from his film.
www.jeudepaume.org
10/21/09
The art of Fashion - Installing Allusions
The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions
19 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
In The Art of Fashion, this autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen investigates the borders between fashion and art. Today’s fashion designers use installations and performances, and their designs are often more sculptural than wearable. Five of them have been commissioned to make new work specifically for the exhibition.
The H+F Fashion on the Edge programme allows designers to abandon the strict rules of fashion and make work unconstrained by other considerations. The relationship between the two disciplines is revealed by these and other works at the cutting edge of fashion and art.
http://www.boijmans.nl/en/
10/21/09
Madeleine Vionnet, puriste de la mode
Les Arts Décoratifs is devoting a
major exhibition to Madeleine Vionnet. In 1952, the couturière donated 22
dresses, 750 dress patterns and 75 photo albums to Les Arts Décoratifs. Selected
from her major works between 1912 and 1939 and now restored with the aid of
Natixis, this exceptional collection of avant-garde designs can at last be
shown to the public. Madeleine Vionnet’s entire career was marked by her
constant quest for freedom in extremely refined but unfettered designs close to
antique drapery, which continue to fascinate couturiers such as Azzedine Alaia,
Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and John Galliano.
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
