Chalayan is an artist and designer, working in film, dress and installation art. Research Chalayan’s work, and then consider these questions in some thoughtful reflective writing.
1. Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?
Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?
A: In my opinion. Both works are art, but not fashion. The first thing we should know the differences between fashion and art is what is fashion and what is art.
Like Voltaire said:
"There is a fickle, teasing Goddess
Fantastic in her tastes, playful in adornment,
Who at every season seems to flee, return and rise again.
Proteus was her father, her name is Fashion." (Hurlock E.B., 1929)
That means fashion is a way of dressing that is currently accepted.
For art “Any brief definition of art would oversimplify the matter, but we can say that all the definitions offered over the centuries include some notion of human agency, whether through manual skills (as in the art of sailing or painting or photography), intellectual manipulation (as in the art of politics), or public or personal expression (as in the art of conversation). Recall that the word is etymologically related to artificial -- i.e., produced by human beings. ”（Belten R.J., 2008）
After reseaching the defination of art and fashion, I think fashion is beauty and the dress could popular in a period. The Burka can be the art, but not fashion, because women can not wear this to wald on the stree or do things, it's too open. And Afterword, the dree is heavy, I think nobody will wear the heavy dree to work or go to school, because it's unconvinenc. Both works are art, but not fashion.
The popular things make the fashion fashion.
Hussein Chalayan, Burka, 1996
Hussein Chalayan, Afterwords, 2000
2. Chalayan has strong links to industry. Pieces like The Level Tunnel (2006) and Repose (2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by, commercial business; in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal manufacturer. How does this impact on the nature of Chalayan’s work? Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?
A: Art is Art, it never changed. Chalayan just mix the profit and art together, he do the art, made the art and fashion for more people, that most of people can feel what is fashion, what is art, and surrounded by them. It is a way to let a hurge number of people to open their eyes on art. Art doesn't change when it is used to sell products, the products are still art. Art is not going to change even if it was given value.
The tunnel was inspired by a cut through landscape, with all different levels, purifying the water that is later used in the vodka destillery. It was a great project to find a solution for a load bearing, watertight glass construction that had to be demountable and easy to assemble. (Nilsby F.)
3. Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It features the process of caring for worn clothes, and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements; can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired Chalayan’s approach?
A: Unfortunalety, I can not find the video.. bur I can still get some information from the image and the text of the question. As the image shows, the machine in the middle looks like an ironing table, which could be infuenced by the period that developed science (17th.) and also influence by Industrialisation. I can imagine the video maybe include some part about hyper-realism, and that would be from post-modernism.
That's what I can think just from the test and the image.
I will add more information after I find the video.
Hussein Chalayan, still from Absent Presence, 2005 (motion picture)
4. Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else; for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol’s pop art was largely produced in a New York collective called The Factory, and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?
A: I think it is quite important for artist to make the piece by themselves. The art is a kind of idea or feelings that could be feel and understand by viewers. When artists want to show their mind exactly that other people can not show the idea well, at that time, artists will make the pieces by themselves. Artists care about the color, shape, and how perfect did they completed. Also, the first piece of the work, I think should be done by the artist, and the original one can always get a good price if artist want to make profit from it. Many designers begin to use other people's hand to make the real things thesedays, I can understand that as the world grows up and the technology developes, people works more efficient, however, viewers still love to see the piece made by the "real" artist.They can feel the emotion from the artist
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Reference List:
1. Hurlock E.B. (1929) What is Fahsion?. The psychology of dress: an analysis of fashion and its motive. US.
2.Belten R.J. (2008) Art History: A PRELIMINARY HANDBOOK
http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/arthistory/What_is_Art_.html
3.The level Tunnel (2008)
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/05/13/the-level-tunnel/
4.Nilsby F. The LEVEL Tunnel,BDC & Hussein Chalayan for Absolut Vodka
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-LEVEL-Tunnel-%28Absolut-Vodka-Hussein-Chalayan%29/701114
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