Week 3- Hussein Chalayan
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?
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The idea through these works is very unique, these work can be called as a wearable art, because it can be wear but not on the reality, some unique idea have been made thought, but it’s also a disadvantage to the human, its inaccessible for use to wear on the street, the problem can be to heavy or it too over expose for a person wear on the street. The works above ( Afterwords made in 2000) its made out of wood block, and to me I think its very heavy for a person to wear on the street, it’s also not soft so can be a object can hit our body, which makes it difficult to walk. Compare between art and fashion I think these work are more in a direction to art. Some people might think that this is a clothing so it should be on the fashion side, but as my own opinion I think that fashion should be a object that give people different feelings of what they look like and its also an object that can protected, and accessible. The work Hussein Chalayan does are more work on wearable clothing and display work.
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) was designed for the designer Hussein Chalayan, from the company level vodka, to design a collection focus on taste, the walk way were 15 meter long and 5 meter high.
These pieces are still counted as an art work, it doesn’t mean when you sell it, it will be notice as a product not as an art pieces. In the main time Hussein Chalayan’s work had been invited to do a commercial for the vodka company and the crystal manufacture. I think that to be invited to do a commercial is a opportunity to show the world they exist, it also to represent the company, in this case the artist needs to have the mark of the company or any relation to the company. So as my own option I think that it will be an original artwork and have the relation to the company.
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?
I think the inspiration that Chalayan might has is some biological ways, which give him the inspiration, it can be the idea of blood type or any other elements that is related to the human biology. The hospital might be one of his big inspirations for this film because many different kind of sickness and problems on human biology is related to hospital.
Hussein Chalayan, still from Absent Presence, 2005 (motion picture)
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?
Different artist have different thought on their own pieces of artwork, they also have different idea on their own artwork, I could said that Hussein Chalayan is one of the important design, his work is unique, for example the Afterwords designed by Chalayan in 2000 is very different to our cloths that been design, the dress on her can be taken out and presented as a table, and I think this type of thought that he have created is different to other designers, he gave use an accessible dress where people can go out have a moveable table on them all day. Before he design cloths, he might have issue or problems, so he thought about the issue and created a pieces where he can solve the problem.
Laver. J (1969) Costume And Fashion A Concise History
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