Written in English and French
Released alongside exhibition in year 2000
Pages 207
Le Corps Mutant was an exhibition held at Galerie Enrico Navarra by Enrico Navarra and Jacques Ranc.
Le Corps Mutant explores the relationship between art and fashion and the undeniable fascination with the body and the bodies creative potential.
Featuring a catalogue of imagery from artists and designers including Azzedine Alaïa, Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, Björk, Leigh Bowery, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garçons, David Lachapelle, Jeremy Scott, Philip Treacy, Walter Van Beirendonck and many more.
Le Corps Mutant invites a variety of different industry professionals to discuss ‘Body in Mutation’ and what this means to them and within their field of expertise. Including an interview between fashion historian Florence Müller and fashion historian and critic Suzy Menkes. Müller opens with the question ‘Is not the body in mutation a constant in fashion since the Renaissance, re-creating the body, rejecting nature and transfiguring it?’.
Florence Müller then discusses the relationship between fashion and the body and how designers fascinations with the body have encouraged change within not only the fashion industry but largely how society view themselves. She mentions Comme des Garçons infamous 1997 ‘Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body’ collection where models were sent down the runway wearing garments that resembled lumps and bumps and how in the 1980’s Azzedine Alaïa overturned the classical western conception of the figure by proposing sculpting of the body using second-skin garments. ‘Rei Kawakubo’s vision of discreet, enveloping clothing or Alaïa’s decomplexifying approach, pre-figure developments of the fashion world in the 1990’s. From now on, full-figured women have the choice between loose or tight-fitting clothing.’
“The body in mutation exhibition at the Enrico Navarra Gallery is designed to express the present situation in the entire history of self-expression of the body - a history that is in fact the preamble to body art.” Pierre Restany, Historian and Art Critic.
“The body in mutation is by definition a potentiality which the evolution of species makes possible, a novel body, still to come. Yet it is a modernity itself that has accustomed us to envisage a future body.” Serge Grünberg, Cinema Critic.
Body in Mutation offers provoking thoughts about our identity and raises questions about rapid scientific progress all whilst encouraging a celebration of our differences.
Measurements:
Height 29cm
Width 25cm
Condition: Good
