Hussein 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.Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) andBurka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer.
1.what are your personal responses to these works?
I think Chalayan's work is interesting. For the Afterwords, Chalayan combined fashion with installation art. However, I think it is not useful.
2.The works can leap to hybrid fashion / art.and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?
3.Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?
I think the fashion is not all clothing, it also is made by new ideas.
4.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?
I think this is a good experience to have link with industry. He would have many different ideas. Chalayan works with Florian , and they used Swarovski to created art.
Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?
I think it is still art when the art is used to sell products. Every product relate with art or design. The art is can be sell to everyone who want to have it. Sometime , even a chair or cup also can represent the art.
5.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?
Actually, I don't really know about the art movements. But I 'm sure the Absent Presence has a big influence for Chalayan's. The film installation telling a story based on identity, geography, genetics, biology and anthropology. The film questions whether the extent to which identities can adapt to new environments.
6. 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 the artist personally made the piece is not really important, but the artist has to use own idea. The idea is more important. The artist can draw the idea or explain to other worker. However, it depend on what type of art or design. For painting , the artist has to make the work by personally. If Spatial design, i think it doesn't personally build the subject or something.
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ReplyDeleteI think that these works are both art and fashion.art or fashion if you know what i mean...Its what you want it to be.
After reading your blog, maybe the work of Chalayan can be both art and fashion. but it depends on if it is commercial or not.When i first saw these two works, i was a bit shocking, kind of in both good and bad way. For the Bruka, when i saw the youtube, i didn't understand the meaning behind the show, but i didn't even have any interest to research it, because i think it is disgusting and scary.
ReplyDeleteThat's very true that the idea itself is vital to an art work, instead of who made it. Ofcourse there are other people with particular professions who maybe are more skillful in making, moulding, constructing an art work using specific materials. Such as print specialists, or builders. However, the artist's own original idea is what's important because the message within an art work is the way for artists to tell their story.
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