17/6/2004
Susan Cianciolo
MU, Eindhoven
A retrospective of Cianciolo's fourteen RUN Collections besides scores of drawings and photos and a number of her films; visitors can also spend time in a meditation room.
CRYSTAL CLOUD
Susan Cianciolo (new York) is widely known as a very determined fashion designer, but what makes her really special is her versatilit as an artist, musician and film maker. Her studio is a ‘travel agency’ for her thoughts, it’s jampacked with unique fabrics, drawings, watercolours, photos, found illustrations, prototypes and books. When working in this intimate domain, Susan is not concerning herself with fashion in itself, but with translating her thoughts, findings and comments into extremely personal works. ‘I leave the result to change, fate, destiny, my passion and my need to create’.
Her fashion designs are definitely anti-economical and completely manual. Her works communicate a distinct determination never to work within the confines of the fashion world and its production requirements. Her RUN collections are shown during the New York Fashion Week, but also in galleries, in the streets or in parking garage. Many of her presentations are controversial; performances rather than fashion shows.
The exhibition in MU presents a retrospective of Cianciolo’s fourteen RUN Collections besides scores of drawings and photos and a number of her films; visitors can also spend time in a meditation room.
During the opening, this Friday at 20.00 hours, Susan Ciaciolo will give two concerts: one with her group Third Way with Yuki and Shita from Kyoto (Japan) and one with Hisham (Black Dice) and Mark Borthwick
MU, Emmasingel 20, 5611 AZ Eindhoven
040-2961663