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| Pap(i)er Fashion Museum Bellerive (part of the applied arts collection of the Zurich Museum of Design) 30.04 - 01.08.2010 Zurich |
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The Pap(i)er Fashion exhibition is an attempt to exhibit research into and enjoyment of creation. With the ATOPOS Collection of American throwaway paper dresses of the sixties as its starting point, the exhibition introduces its visitors to something that has hardly been researched and is almost unknown to the broader public. The exhibition is registered in a historical context which examines new open ways to approach questions regarding the invention of raw material and textile, and consequently garment manufacture know-how, such as for non-woven materials. The focus is in fact on a particularly innovative non-woven material, paper, as well as paper-like materials.
Paper, which was invented in China in approximately 100 A.D., has been used to manufacture garments and accessories in various cultures in the past and also in modern creation. The exhibition examines the use of paper in contemporary fashion practices through design, art, advertising, video, catwalk shows and the actual creations of some of the most innovative designers of our times including Paco Rabanne, Issey Miyake, Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Akris.
At the same time it places particular emphasis on the ephemeral, fragile, humble and poetic nature of paper garments, juxtaposing modern creation with paper garments from diferent cultures and civilisations. The exhibition is developed in seven diferent sections within the exhibition space of Museum Bellerive elevating the different aspects of the subject.
The exhibition does not conform to speciic models, but seeks alternative ways of presentation. It is deined as an exhibition that wants to keep changing venues, objects, staging and visual angles. In this way ATOPOS has the opportunity of continuing the research it began two years ago, constantly enriching its collection and at the same time developing new
‘Gouache on Yellow Pages Dress’ (USA, 1968) by Howard Hodgkin, 2010, for ATOPOS Cultural Organization, © the artist projects in collaboration with other museums, artists and organisations. The RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion was irst shown at the Benaki Museum, Athens, spring 2007 with the next stop at Mudam, Luxembourg, October 2008-February 2009, and at MoMu, Antwerp, March August 2009.
Concept: ATOPOS Cultural Organization, Athens
Curators: Eva Afuhs, Vassilis Zidianakis, Curating assistance: Leonidas Poulopoulos, Project management: Eva
Afuhs, Coordination: Sonja Gutknecht, Aristoula Karra,
Exhibition design: Alain Rapapport, Assistant: Rahel Kesselring,
Exhibition graphics: Tobias Strebel, PZ Studio
Publikation ZHdK, Constructions: Craig Neil, Pius Fah,
Werkstatt MfGZ, Stahl & Traumfabrik AG, Zurich, AV technology: ZHdK AVZ, Communication: Jacqueline Greenspan, Galini Notti, Communication design: Maria Rosa
Jehle, Zurich, Photography: PZ Studio Publikation ZHdK,
Museum services: Christina Wellinger, Museum education: Ursina Spescha, Christa Binder, Contributors from
the ATOPOS team : Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Myrsini Pichou.
We thank our lenders: ATOPOS Collection, Akris AG, Andrea Ayala Closa, Sandra Backlund, David Bailey, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, CHANEL Haute Couture, Collection Musee dArt Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Mudam Luxembourg, Bjorn Dahlstrom Collection, Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, Katharina Frey, Ying Gao, Ida Gut, Stephan Hann, KOhZO Denim AG, LVR- Industriemuseum, Maison Martin Margiela, Lucy McRae / Bart Hess, Verena Formanek, Helene Kelmachter, Marie- Claude Beaud, Doris Schuhmacher, Diane Steverlynck, Marcus Tomlinson, Two Rooms, A.F. Vandevorst, Linda Wiesner, Zurcher Hochschule der Kunste, Medien- und Informationszentrum (MIZ)
"LET'S GO" A PAPER DRESS. Published by Lincoln Mercury (FORD
MOTORS). © USA, 1969. ATOPOS Collection, Athens
The educational programme of the Museum fur Gestal-tung Zurich and Museum Bellerive is supported by the CREDIT SUISSE FOUNDATION.
An exhibition in co-operation with the ATOPOS Cultural Organization, Athens, and Museum Bellerive, ein Haus des Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich Eva Afuhs, Leitende Kuratorin Museum Bellerive, Christian Brandle, Direktor Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, Stamos J. Fafalios, President of ATOPOS Cultural Organization, Athens
FASHION DESIGNERS STUDIOS & ARTISTS WORK-
SHOPS
A. F. Vandevorst, Akris, Andrea Ayala Closa, Chanel
Haute Couture by Karl Lagerfeld, Deepak Raja
Shrestha, Diane Steverlynck, Dirk Van Saene, Doris
Schuhmacher, Harry Gordon, Helmut Lang, Hiroaki
Ohya, Howard Hodgkin, Hugo Boss /James Rosenquist, Hussein Chalayan, Ida Gut, Irini Miga, Issey
Miyake, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, John Galliano, Jum Nakao, Karim Bonnet/ Takashi Murakami, Katharina Frey, KOhZO Denim, Kosuke
Tsumura, Linda Wiesner, Lucy McRae/ Bart Hess,
Maison Martin Margiela, Marcus Tomlinson/
Gareth Pugh, Michael Cepress, Paco Rabanne,
Reiko Sudo/ Nuno Corp., Robert Wilson, Sandra
Backlund, Sarah Caplan, Saskia Diez, Stephan
Hann, TT:NT, Travis Hutchison, Walter Van Beirendonck, Ying Gao, Zoe Keramea.
COMMUNICATION SPONSORS
H KAHMEPINH, International Herald Tribune-Kathimerini, AthensPlus, OZON
Events within the scope of the exhibition
Opening reception
Thursday April 29, 7 pm
Welcome reception: Christoph Weckerle, director Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the
Arts (ZHdK)
Introduction: Stamos J. Fafalios, President ATOPOS Cultural Organization Athens & Eva Afuhs, Chief Curator
Museum Bellerive
Accompanying sounds by Bonaventura van Eerd, Mbira
(thumb piano of the Shona population of Zimbabwe)
Public guided tours
Sundays, 2 pm
Private guided tours (also available in English) on request:
christina.wellinger@zhdk.ch, Tel. +41 43 446 44 69
Open house
Sunday June 6, free entrance
Special guided tours
Thursday May 20, 6.30 pm
Papiertextilien in Japan und Europa kulturgeschichtliche Hintergrunde und aktuelle Entwicklungen
With Christina Leitner, textile designer and author, Linz (in German)
Thursday July 8, 6.30 pm
Papier Mode oder Mull
With Eva Afuhs (in German)
Thursday July 15, 6.30 pm
When paper becomes fashion: The ATOPOS collection
With Myrsini Pichou, custume researcher of ATOPOS Collection (in English)
Intermediation
Guided tours and workshops for school classes
For nursing-school kids to adolescents at vocational and Cantonal schools with Ursina Spescha, art mediator
Introduction for teachers: Wednesday May 19, 5 pm
Information und registration:
> schule&kultur Kanton Zurich
Saturday June 12 and 19, 1.30 5 pm
Schnitt II Papier, kleidsam
Workshop within theexhibition with Christa Binder,
BA Art Education (in German)
Participation: from the age of 12, CHF 10
Information und registration: +41(0)43 446 44 69 /
christina.wellinger@ zhdk.ch
Exhibition talk
Thursday June 10, 6.30 pm
Papiermode: Faszination der Verganglichkeit, Trend oder Tradition?
Mit Cliford Lilley, stylist and image consultant, Zurich, and Jose Warmund-Cordelier, journalist and editor, Reinach
Moderation: Eva Afuhs (in German)