“Reflecting Fashion: Art and Fashion Since Modernism” Opening: June 14, 2012–7.00 p.m.
15 June 2012 / 20 September 2012
MUMOK (Museum der Moderne Stiftung Ludwig Wien) Austria
The exhibition will be opened parallel with the "Summer of Fashion" in the MuseumsQuartier.
The exhibition focuses on clothing and fashion as an essential component of art, where particularly since the mid-1960s they have played a major role in the work of such artists as Ellsworth Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Niki de Saint Phalle and Daniel Buren. Fashion has always played an important role in the semantics of modernism, with numerous traditions following Baudelaire in defining “modernité” through a concept of fashion - of what is “à la mode”.
During the early 20th century, fashion became part of the formal language of the avant-garde including such artists as Sonia Delaunay, the Futurists and the Surrealists. Celebrated theorists such as Walter Benjamin emphasized the power of fashion in connection with broader questions of art: “Fashion has a flair for the topical, no matter where it stirs in the thickets of long ago; it is a tiger's leap into the past.” Benjamin not only confers a revolutionary significance to fashion but also a certain primacy over art. Art in turn takes fashion “at its most perfect” and relies on its complex and paradoxical nature, where “perfection” can only be achieved through remaining imperfect, where permanence is sought in change and individuality made possible through imitation.
Fashion is artifice, clothing is everyday life. “Fashion,” according to Barbara Vinken, “is commentary expressed through clothing about clothing.”
Fashion is artifice, clothing is everyday life. “Fashion,” according to Barbara Vinken, “is commentary expressed through clothing about clothing.”
The exhibition will explore the interplay between art and fashion from the beginning of modernism to the present.
Curator
Susanne Neuburger in collaboration with Barbara Rüdiger
Curator
Susanne Neuburger in collaboration with Barbara Rüdiger
Artists:
Vito Acconci / Fred Adlmüller / Pawel Althamer/ Jean Arp / Maja Bajevic / Giacomo Balla / Bauhaus / Herbert Bayer / Joseph Beuys / BLESS / Alighiero Boetti / Cosima von Bonin / Andre Breton / Kaucyila Brooke / Buch / Daniel Buren / Hussein Chalayan / Christo / Courreges-Guy Debord / DAMEN (I. Strobl, Ona B., E. Egerer, B. Jürgenssen) / Sonja Delaunay / Marcel Duchamp / Ines Doujak / "Dragos Olea Apparatus 22 / Madame D'Ora / Max Ernst / VALIE EXPORT / Alexandra Exter / "Fabrics Interseason Wally Salner / "Fabrics Interseason Johannes Schweiger" / "Factory of Found Clothes (Natalia Pershina)" / Marina Faust / Trude Fleischmann / Sylvie Fleury / Schwestern Flöge / Marcus Geiger / Isa Genzken / Rudi Gernreich - Ed Ruscha / Rudi Gernreich / George Grosz / Maria Hahnenkamp / Raoul Hausmann / Tibor Hajas / Rosa El Hazan -Milica Tomic / Kurt Husnik / Sanja Ivekovic / Jugenstilmantel / Birgit Jürgenssen / Allen Jones / Taddeusz Kantor / Ellsworth Kelly / Gustav Klimt / Jakob Lena Knebl / Milan Knizák / Daniel Knorr / Christoph Kohlhofer / Silvia Kolbowski / Grete Kolliner / Germaine Krull / Friedl Kubelka / Yayoi Kusama / Yayoi Kusama-Günter Uecker / Helmut Lang / Strauß Maria Likarz- / El Lissitzky / George Maciunas / Rene Magritte / Christopher Makos / Man Ray / Marie Claire Nr 148 / Lucia Moholy Regina Möller / Kolo Moser / Helmut Newton / Olaf Nicolai / Marzena Nowak / Meret Oppenheim / Ferhat Özgür / Mai-Thu Peret / Lil Picard / Pop Art / Liubov Popova / Stephen Prina / Florian Pumhösl / Pierre Restany / Felice Rix / Alexander Rodtschenko / James Rosenquist / Martha Rosler / August Sander / Hans Scheirl / Klaus Scherübel / Markus Schinwald / Elsa Schiaparelli & Salvador Dali / Kurt Seligman / Elfie Semotan / Martin Kippenberger - Elfie Semotan / Helmut Lang - Elfie Semotan / Cindy Sherman / Niki de St. Phalle / Oskar Schlemmer / Nedko Solakov / Alfred Stieglitz / Warwara Stepanowa / Ingeborg Strobl / Struppi (Gerhard Stecharnig) / Surrealistenausstellung / Sophie Arp Taeuber / Tanaka Atsuko / Vladimir Tatlin / Wolfgang Tillmans / Rosemarie Trockel / Unbekannt / Nadim Vardag / Andrea Van der Straeten / Sacrum Ver / Franz Erhard Walther / Andy Warhol / Karl-Heinz Weinberger / Franz West / Werkstätte Wiener / Valy Wieselthier / Steven Willats / Wols / Erwin Wurm / Andrea Zittel / Heimo Zobernig
