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(425 Harrow Road, London, W10 4RE)

16th December 2011 - 17th March 2012

Opening Party: Thursday 15th December

6.30pm - 9.00pm

londonprintstudio’s forthcoming exhibition *UD¿N$SSDUHOH[DPLQHVWKHLQWHUORFNLQJ strategies of artists and designers who stretch and invisibly mend the codes and clothes we ‘wear’.

Clothes entwine references, ironies and identities. Historically garments express a collective state of mind, status, allegiance, SURIHVVLRQ±DQGLQGLYLGXDOGUHDPV¶VSXQN expressed disillusionment with authority. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, couturier Schiaparelli ZRUNHGZLWKOHDGLQJDUWLVWVDQGGHVLJQHG clothes that referenced surrealism, while artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven challenged respectable society as ‘the only one living anywhere who dresses Dada, loves Dada, lives Dada’.

From the 1980’s, many fashion designers have wanted to be recognised as artists, producing ‘conceptual clothes’. Using strategies

associated with contemporary art they have created clothes that are sometimes better suited to exhibitions than for everyday wear. However, artists have often designed clothes - IURP.OLPWWR0DWLVVH6DOYDGRU'DOt$OHNVDQGU 5RGFKHQNRDQG2VFDU6FKOHPPHU6RQLD Delaunay and Natalia Goncharova were particularly interested in clothes and textile design, producing many designs for popular consumption.

*UD¿N$SSDUHOZLOOFKDQQHOWKHVSLULWRIWKH Baroness, through artists who blur the lines between fashion and art, into a memorable exhibition.

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This exhibition will explore the creative tension between the separate worlds of art and fashion, and includes the following artists:

Philip Colbert, Godfried Donkor, Janieta Eyre, Dana Haim, Andrew Ibi, Pia Interlandi, Sabina Keric & Yvonne Bayer, Naiza Khan, Anders Krisar, Kirstie Macleod, Ruth Marten,

Rhian Solomon, Jo Spence, Stella Whalley, Kimiko Yoshida, The Countess Alex Zapak londonprintstudio exhibitions explore ideas and boundaries between art, popular culture and social engagement. londonprintVWXGLRZRUNVFUHDWLYHO\ZLWKDUDQJHRIDUWLVWVDQGFXUDWRUVLQSURGXFLQJ LWVH[KLELWLRQV7KLVVKRZLVMRLQWO\FXUDWHGE\-RKQ3KLOOLSVDQG=KLYND+DVNL\D6LDQ:HVWRQLVD special adviser.

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“He kissed her on the cheek and said, ‘What’s that on your face?’

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