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13/5/2011

Arrrgh! Monsters in Fashion

Pireos St. Annexe - Benaki Museum, Athens

The exhibition is a world first, examining the expansion of the pop phenomenon of paradoxical, imaginary and monster-formed Characters in fashion and dress. Rising as well as broadly known and established designers and artists re-define the relationship between body and clothing, a swell as the borders of our consciousness in What is a Monster?

The exhibition will include creations by Maison Martin Margiela, Walter Van Beirendonck, Bart Hess, Jean-Charles De Castelbajac, Mareunrol’s, Bas Kosters, Issey Miyake, Henrik Vibskov, Dr NOKI’s NHS, Charlie Le Mindu, Hideki Seo, Alexis Themistocleous, Boris Hoppek, Craig Green, Bernhard Willhelm, Marcus Tomlinson, Bronwen Marshall, Rejina Pyo, Cassette Playa and Gary Card, Andrea Ayala Closa, Giorgos Tourlas, Digitaria, Niek Pulles aka HEYNIEK, Piers Atkinson, Pyuupiru and many others.

The Cultural Group ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture (ATOPOS CVC) is organising the exhibition ARRRGH, Monsters in Fashion at the Benaki Museum (Peiraios Street premises) from May 14th to July 31st. The exhibition presents the extension of the phenomenon of paradoxical, bizarre and monstrous characters in fashion and dress, for the first time globally.

The Characters are imaginary creations by contemporary artists, which derive from the fusion of the human form with zoomorphic, mythical and supernatural characteristics. On the grounds of this new tendency in contemporary art, upcoming and established fashion designers and artists redefine the relation of the body with clothing, the possibilities of the human form and the limits of our perceptions of beauty and monstrosity, combining new codes of visual communication in dress.

Artist Charlie Le Mindu, well-known from his cooperation with Lady Gaga and Mylène Farmer, presents some of his works on 12 May – 29 July 2011, at the Athens French Institute, Sina 31 str.

The opening of the exhibition, saturday 14th may 2011, was deliberately scheduled to coincide the celebrations of European Museum Night, includes a performance Atopic Bodies [FIVE]: The Monsters’ Ball.

Organization
ATOPOS CVC with the support of the Benaki Museum

Under the aegis of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Municipality of Athens, the French Embassy and the Embassy of United States of America in Athens

As part of the Athens Festival www.greekfestival.gr

Supporting by French Institute of Athens, British Council and ATHENS EVERY WEEK

Pireos St. Annexe - Benaki Museum
138 Pireos & Andronikou St. Athens
Hours:
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Sundays: 10:00 - 18:00
Fridays, Saturdays: 10:00 - 22:00
The Annexe is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
Full admission: € 3 to € 6
Unified ticket: € 10 to € 12

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