Candela Cort
dal 12/2/2009 al 25/4/2009
Segnalato da
12/2/2009
Candela Cort
Museo del Traje, Madrid
The art of flying according to Candela Cort. The links between art history and fashion are evidenced in this temporary exhibition where the artist combines some of the most important artistic portraits with her signature headwear.
The links between art history and fashion are evidenced in this temporary exhibition where the artist Candela Cort combines some of the most important artistic portraits with her signature headwear.
The characters taken from frescoes and canvasses from different periods – classical, renaissance, baroque, modern and contemporary - are used as models for millinery with some of this artist’s characteristic materials (raffia, velvet, hessian, tulle, organza, gauze, metallic mesh or brass). With not a single right angle in sight, her work is full of scrolls, circles and spirals, echoing those in the paintings she reinterprets in her collages.
The headwear by Candela Cort is linked to these artistic icons through the materials, shapes and colours used. The resulting compositions, in the shape of the beautiful collages on display in the Museo del Traje, are the artist’s closest creative approximation to the pictorial to date.
Museo del Traje
Avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2 - Madrid