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?
Afterwords (2000)
Burka (1996) My responses are his design is not rooted in history, the street or the myths and legends, but reflect a future images and Thoughts on the future, he used in his fashion design conveys an evolution of human civilization the possibility, is to the human feet may leave land.
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN: “FASHION IS A COMBINATION OF ART, PROFESSION AND PRODUCT”(FASHION LIFESTAY,2008).
I agree with him,but it is limited.My opinion is that too extreme expression is not fashion,It is art. Such as Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996). Fashion is the pursuit of beauty trends,art can express All emotions of the inner world .The childhood and a part of chalayan youth years in Turkish Cyprus incise forever in his spirituality and conscience.Yashmak and headcloths, shalwars or something like shalwars and in general the different signs in the Islam in the appearance penetrate permanently in his works. It is elementary to interpret all this like standard experience for visual representation of the Moslem women and their situation in the today’s society. In fact the intelligent and the provoking combination of these signs with other modern components give to his works originality, emblematic and ripeness.. He calls his mother country “turbulent zone” – Turkish Cyprus, and he reminds with pain the cruelty of the constraint, which introduces the ethnical and religious boundaries and forms the fear and the hatred.Not all clothing is fashion, making fashion fashion need Innovative and unique,and the ultimate goal is to achieve beautiful.
Afterwords (2000)
Burka (1996) HUSSEIN CHALAYAN: “FASHION IS A COMBINATION OF ART, PROFESSION AND PRODUCT”(FASHION LIFESTAY,2008).
I agree with him,but it is limited.My opinion is that too extreme expression is not fashion,It is art. Such as Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996). Fashion is the pursuit of beauty trends,art can express All emotions of the inner world .The childhood and a part of chalayan youth years in Turkish Cyprus incise forever in his spirituality and conscience.Yashmak and headcloths, shalwars or something like shalwars and in general the different signs in the Islam in the appearance penetrate permanently in his works. It is elementary to interpret all this like standard experience for visual representation of the Moslem women and their situation in the today’s society. In fact the intelligent and the provoking combination of these signs with other modern components give to his works originality, emblematic and ripeness.. He calls his mother country “turbulent zone” – Turkish Cyprus, and he reminds with pain the cruelty of the constraint, which introduces the ethnical and religious boundaries and forms the fear and the hatred.Not all clothing is fashion, making fashion fashion need Innovative and unique,and the ultimate goal is to achieve beautiful.
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?
The Level Tunnel (2006)
Repose (2006)'the level tunnel' is a 15m long, 5m high installation that can be experienced from the exterior or blindfolded on the inside. chalayan has developed an experience of the senses, working with a number of different materials as well as playing with scent, touch and sound. the viewing is blindfolded and led into the installation, where they are confronted with sound created by a flute made from a vodka bottle. further on, a breeze carries the scent of lemon and cedar as the visitors moves along the leather coated railings. a heart monitor is fitted onto the visitor and a display on the outside projects their heartbeat to external viewers(designboom,n.d.).
'Repose' were making a statement about the space between our homes and our busy out of home lives; the shoulders of this dress are sponsored by your grandmother's armchair.
He dose not change the meaning of art when it is used to sell products.Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics, and even disciplines such as history and psychology analyze its relationship with humans and generations(wikipedia,n.d.).It is still art."[Art is a set of] artefacts or images with symbolic meanings as a means of communication." -Steve Mithen(Steve Mithen,1999). Art plays a large part in making our lives infinitely rich.
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?
The Absent Presence is an enigmatic story based on identity, geography, genetics, biology and anthropology. It opens the argument on how certain identities can or cannot adapt to new environments and generates a research based narration for Hussein's cross-disciplined installation with filmic images and sculptures(ART100,n.d.).I think Chalayan might be influenced by Installation art ,Sound art,IMMAGINE&POESIA,Futurism,Neo-expressionism,Conceptual Art, Performance art.
The Level Tunnel (2006)
Repose (2006)'Repose' were making a statement about the space between our homes and our busy out of home lives; the shoulders of this dress are sponsored by your grandmother's armchair.
He dose not change the meaning of art when it is used to sell products.Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics, and even disciplines such as history and psychology analyze its relationship with humans and generations(wikipedia,n.d.).It is still art."[Art is a set of] artefacts or images with symbolic meanings as a means of communication." -Steve Mithen(Steve Mithen,1999). Art plays a large part in making our lives infinitely rich.
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?
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?
I think when a work is conception and creation, need the artist to doing their own work, because it is unque, valuable. Of course, some art is replicated by others, most of these are as a commodity to sell, such as clothing. There is also in the process of artistic creation, the use of materials, method, there may be others to do, because it is not the artist's original, and others can do, these can be performed by someone else to do.such as Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself.But the main ideological work and the way of expression are need the artist personally made the pice.It is important that The artist's idea.If the work has no soul and mind , it is just a copy,and no value.
designboom.(n.d.).From http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=2858
wikipedia.(n.d.).Retrieved August 10 ,2011,from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
Steve Mithen.(1999). The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science.
ART100.(n.d.).From http://art100.wikispaces.com/Hussein+Chalayan
ART100.(n.d.).From http://art100.wikispaces.com/Hussein+Chalayan
You said his work it’s in a limited and extreme expression is not fashion, and I agree what you’ve said, and it’s right that when a cloth it’s too complex or its too extreme expression, it won’t be call as a cloth. I wanted to add something in you respond, is that the cloth that he made its definitely called as an art piece, but with the art pieces, the artist have thought about what’s good on human and what’s accessible to human, therefore I think that the work (afterwards) it’s a very accessible cloth to wear, when taking down the dress it become a moveable table, which is very accessible to carry around, in this case it has related to human. Cloth is an object that all human wears but with art it’s something that we look at it, not use. Because the accessible dress made the work more likely to be a cloth that can be wear, and have the accessibility for human to use, so I would say this is a piece of wearable art.
回复删除I agree with you that fashion is the pursuit of beauty trends, art can express All emotions of the inner world .And i like that you said when a work is conception and creation, need the artist to doing their own work, because it is unque, valuable. The relationship between fashion and art is always so subtle differences between the nature of the use of Rei Kawakubo's words: "Fashion is actively involved in the arts is a passive acceptance."
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