Chalayan is an artist and designer, working in film, dress and installation art. Research Chalayan’s work, and then consider these questions in some thoughtful reflective writing.
1. Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?
Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?
I believe that the both, Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996), represent art rather then fashion. Fashion is more of a designed piece of clothing or something that would be wearable or have more style and use for people. In these works of art it shows images of either nude or topless models. This usually wouldnt feature on a runway show or in a magazine collection as it is revealing and more of a form of art. Art is very expressive and can be in any form. Successful art works capture the audience no matter what is going on in the art work itself. The fashion industry is a bit more reserved, although there are possibly topless or half naked models going down the runway, it wouldnt be as revealing as going fully nude .
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 manufacturer. How does this impact on the nature of Chalayan’s work? Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?
To me, Art could be anything, So honestly I dont think it changes because of advertising purposes. Art and advertisement material have similarities as in how they are viewed. Many would look at art the same as how they look at advertising 'The Level Tunnel' enhances the viewers experience by making them feel as if theyre in the art and how it became what it is, and can experience the meaning or message of the advert. This work combines two different genres of art and advertisement, and giving the viewer a treat or a full experience. Viewers and consumers can see how its very different to other advertisements.
3. Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It 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?
Post modernism, art can be something Chalayan mightve been influenced by. The film he created shows post modernity and shows new ways of collecting DNA and collecting research which is compeltely different. Chalayan brings in more technology into his art and society and diplays how technology/machines are making life easier.
4. Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else; for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the 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. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?
To me I think art is all about originality, ownership , resposibility etc To me an artist involves themselves into their works, designing and creating their own artwork from start to finish. When an artist creates new artwork it should represent who they are personally and shows their emotions or talent they possess and what work they are capable of making. Nowadays there are many who are just copying other designs that already have been taken and put their own twist to it i dont think its a big issue but some people may have issues with it something someone else did, the original will be noticed alot more.Obviously.
REFERENCES LIST:
http://www.husseinchalayan.com/#/home/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Chalayan
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