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11/3/2015

Two exhibitions

Lentos Art Museum, Linz

Love & Loss
Fashion and Mortality

Curator: Ursula Guttmann

In the 1980s new content and a revolutionary new aesthetic made their first appearance in the world of Western fashion. Features such as the search for authenticity, melancholy as a pervasive attitude, and bold formal experiments had been exclusively reserved to the fine arts until then. Now they were taken up by fashion. Martin Margiela, Rei Kawakubo and other outstanding designers subjected the concept of beauty in fashion to a radical makeover, where deformation and wear and tear become exciting stylistic devices.

The torn jeans that are a staple of mainstream fashion these days first saw the light of day in designs by Maison Martin Margiela and Comme des Garçons. Fashion becomes a mirror in which we come face to face with our own mortality. It emphasizes the traces of time, praises transience and flirts with death. A great number of exhibits on loan from international museums and studios substantiate moments between the 1980s and today, in which fashion and the art inspired each other.

The exhibition celebrates beauty and the abyss, poetical moments and black humour. It presents fashion designers together with exponents of the visual arts, High Fashion and Street Fashion, photographs, videos, sculptures and installations. The majority of exhibits has never before been seen in Austria.

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Latifa Echakhch
Restart

Transformation and memory are the key themes that inform Latifa Echakhch’s oeuvre. As part of the consistent pursuit of her approach, the artist has combined in this exhibition three work groups and individual objects, all dealing with deconstruction and change.

Wall texts that have partially become detached appear alongside imposing paintings featuring networks of tangled lines and scenery flats, disillusioningly seen from behind: fading memories of an individual self, whose unfulfilled hopes have outlasted youthful simplicity, attempts to break free from ascribed identities, and the seemingly endless multitude of definitions of one’s own personality are all simultaneously represented here.

In her work, the artist calls into question the symbolic significance of objects. She experiments with that significance by bringing all sorts of national, cultural, (socio)political and personal influences to bear on the objects and by changing their context, which results in a new freedom of thinking about them. Her own story as a Frenchwoman with Moroccan roots living in Switzerland forms the backdrop for themes that concern all of us.

Latifa Echakhch (b. 1974), who was awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2013 and the Zurich Art Prize in 2015, will have her first museum exhibition in Austria at the LENTOS.

With the generous support of Phileas.

Image: Latifa Echakhch

Press and PR:
Nina Kirsch, +43(0)732/7070/3603 nina.kirsch@lentos.at

Opening Thursday, 12 March 2015, 7 pm

LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1 4020 Linz
Hours:
daily 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday 10 a.m.–9 p.m.
closed on Monday (unless also a holiday)
Admission:
Full € 8,-
Concessions I (Groups, senior citizens, cooperation partners) € 6,-
Concessions II (Students, apprentices, state service, Aktivpass der Stadt Linz) € 4,50
School groups, children under 7 free

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