Selected 4 SCHMUCK 2016 : Lauren Kalman
Congrats to all the artists who made the SCHMUCK 2016 list, on show at the Handwerksmesse during #munichjewelleryweek 24/02–1/03/2016
While our western countries discuss a lot, in a « social » point of view, about veil, tchador & so on, fashion (Gaultier, Margiela, Hussein Chalayan, etc etc … ) & jewelry designers show their own interpretation about it … finally, « only » an adornment ?
Gaultier 2007 // Hussein Chalayan // Martin Margiela
quand ce n’est pas ce défilé choc de Chalayan :
Hussein Chalayan Spring 1998 - The 50 Most Scandalous Dresses in History
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“I create wearable jewelry that investigates contexts relating to sex, gender, power, pleasure, pain, taste and beauty. This project originated in response to the architect Adolf Loos’s 1910 lecture Ornament and Crime, criticizing the use of decoration in utilitarian objects. My jewelry, when on the body, enacts Loos’s ‘crimes’ of individualism, eroticism, and ornamentation.” Lauren Kalman
Lauren Kalman, Hood 5, 2014, photograph, giclée, 71.12 x 50.8 cm
LAUREN KALMAN – Masters Fine Arts, Art & Technology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2006
Lauren Kalman – Composition with Ornament and Object
« Lauren Kalman focuses on the creation, documentation, and display of wearable sculpture, electronic adornments, photographs, video, and performance. Diseases like elephantiasis, acne, cancer, and herpes are presented as jeweled infections, fabric growths, or wearable instruments. They are hybrids of the grotesque or undesirable aspects of the body and objects we associate with beauty, status, health or wealth. »
