Other big-name designers in Heavenly Bodies include Yves Saint Laurent, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Azzedine Alaïa and Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana for Dolce & Gabbana. A gold mesh dress with a large cross designed for his last collection in 1997 is featured in Th e Met show, among other items from his collections. Late designer Gianni Versace was often inspired by the Byzantine micro mosaics of San Vitale basilica in Ravenna, Italy, and elsewhere. The house of Versace is one of the main sponsors of the exhibit. Bolton further explained that the pieces in The Cloisters, exhibited by way of complex digital imaging by artist Katerina Jebb, reflect how designers are inspired by monastic orders. Bolton noted that the fashion items chosen for the show correspond to specific pieces in the Met’s collections and the hope is that the juxtaposition of the fashion with the art will facilitate contextual connections for viewers. The Vatican previously loaned similarly extraordinary pieces to the Met for The Vatican Collections exhibition in 1983, the museum’s third most-attended show.Ĭomplementing this remarkable selection are the 150 pieces of fashion, mainly women’s wear, displayed in the Byzantine and Medieval Art galleries of the Met Fifth Avenue’s Robert Lehman Wing in addition to The Cloisters, both host to some of the richest collections of Byzantine and medieval art in the world. These items are on display in the Anna Wintour Costume Center. This includes papal vestments, along with jewelry and other accessories from the 18th to the 21st century, spanning 15 papacies. The Vatican has loaned more than 40 exceptional ecclesiastical pieces from its collection, most of which have never left the Sistine Chapel sacristy. “Although this relationship has been complex and sometimes contested, it has produced some of the most inventive and innovative creations in the history of fashion.” “Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another,” said Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute. The exhibition, spanning two galleries and the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Met’s Fifth Avenue location in addition to its Cloisters outpost in upper Manhattan, is the Met’s biggest fashion exhibit and the museum’s biggest show to date, making it one of the must-see events of the year. On May 10, the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibit opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. “Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another.” Overall, I think Heavenly Bodies exhibition is a really interesting, and that if you have the chance to go, you won’t regret it.Dolce & Gabbana ensemble, Autumn 2013. I’ve been to both The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters parts of the exhibit and I really enjoy them. The presentation situates these designs within the broader context of religious artistic production to analyze their connection to the historiography of material Christianity and their contribution to the construction of the Catholic imagination. Providing an interpretative context for fashion’s engagement with Catholicism Heavenly Bodies exhibition has more than 150 ensembles, primarily womenswear, on view in the Byzantine and medieval galleries, in part of the Robert Lehman Wing, and at The Met Cloisters alongside medieval art from The Met collection. The last time the Vatican sent a loan of this magnitude to The Met was in 1983, for The Vatican Collections exhibition, which is the Museum’s third most-visited show. Featuring more than 15 papacies from the 18th to the early 21st century, these masterworks are on view in the Anna Wintour Costume Center galleries and include papal vestments and accessories, such as rings and tiaras. Heavenly Bodies exhibition features approximately 40 ecclesiastical masterworks from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been seen outside the Vatican. It is currently on show at both The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters and it is the largest Costume Institute exhibit in the museum’s history, spanning 25 galleries and 60,000 square feet. Heavenly Bodies exhibition is the name of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring 2018 Costume Institute exhibit.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |