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8/11/2011

No fashion, please!

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien

As part of the Kunsthalle Wien’s autumn program focusing on photography and fashion, the show No fashion, please! offers a survey of the international contemporary photography scene: comprising nineteen solo presentations, the exhibition centers on works that thematize the fundamental relationship between the body and clothing and directly or indirectly explore the diverging strategies of fashion photography.

The anthological show deliberately distances itself from the applied art character of traditional functional fashion photography and, instead, examines the dreams concerned with a changing aesthetic of the body and its ideals within the last two decades. The fashion designer, model and performance artist Leigh Bowery ’s garish creations captured by the British Bowery’s photographer Fergus Greer in a documentary form epitomize the radical chic of the late twentieth century. Crossing borders in various respects, Bowery’s works have inspired numerous fashion designers and made him an icon of London’s sub-culture.
Similarly, the works by Matthias Herrmann and Martin & The evil eyes of Nur , each in their Nur, very own way, take a stand on the strategies staged by a queer sub-culture, which have been increasingly absorbed by the consumerist mainstream of recent decades.

Numerous contributions such as those by Jeff Bark, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber Luigi & Luca, or Sophia Greber, Luca, Wallace relate to the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance as well as the effects of its transformation independent of the conventions associated with clothes. Borders to other disciplines are crossed in both daring and reckless experiments.
Artists working in the tradition of body art suggest models and situations that overlap with “models” of fashion, yet also permit cross-references to installations, ceremonies, and rituals. Chan- Bae’s Holtermann’s Chan- Hyo Bae’s and Lea Golda Holtermann’s photo series show that affiliations also manifest themselves in codes of clothing and that the construction of identities is based on and consolidated by these codes. The media strategies employed are manifold and span from staged photographic images, projections, and performances to body sculptures, video and film works.

Participating artists: Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne artists: Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace, Bruce Weber

Curator Peter Weiermair

Image: Viviane Sassen, HKA01, 2006, © Viviane Sassen, Courtesy Viviane Sassen

Press conference: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 10 a.m.
Opening: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 7 p.m.

Kunsthalle Wien
Museumsplatz 1 - Wien
Opening Hours
Daily 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Admission
Annual Season-Ticket (valid one year): € 27 Students each exhibition: € 4,60 Youth Ticket 11 - 18 years each exhibition: € 1,80 Family Ticket each exhibition: € 10,50 Free Admission for Children under 10 years

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