Dopo the Cantini Museum of Marsiglia in 2019 and the Museum of Lussemburg in Paris in 2020, and the Volta del Museo della Moda di Antwerp has shown the fashion photography of Man Ray, confrontandosi, questa volta, con la creazioni di stilisti e contemporanei fotografi influenza dal voro del surrealista, com Martin Margiela, Helena Lumelsky, Olivier Theyskens, Dries Van Noten o Dirk Van Saene.
Arrived in Paris in 1921 on behalf of Marcel Duchamp, sent to New York with the scandal caused by it Nude descending the stairs At the Armory Show in 1913, Emmanuel Radnitsky, aka Man Ray, was presented by the father of Dad and the “anti-art” in the atmosphere of the avant-garde and all of the Parigi dei ruggenti anni Venti.
At the beginning of the world, it was the story of more growing styles: Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Coco Chanel, Augusta Bernard and, above all, Elsa Schiaparelli… The refinement and the quality of its products also include the light and the inquadrature, the dreamlike atmosphere created by solar panels, Colors, variations and other technical expectations are carried out, infatti, fashion photography, all of which are purely illustrative and utilitarian, based on more artistic and poetic ideas.
Attingendo, like a surrealist buon, in the font of his knowledge and desire, Man Ray created his iconic photograph The Tears nel 1932 by a mascara market. Non meno magici, la sua Hair I'm looking forward to a waterfall test of a beautiful addormentata from 1927, which associates with a giacca ricamata con capelli firmata Olivier Theyskens (collezione primavera-estate 1999).
Prospettive inclination, inquadrature of the alto or of the bass… As part of the advent of a new vision of realizzante of the world, Man Ray seemed to fly capovolgere il nostro guardo and catturare la stranezza nascosta della realtà. “Prire gli occhi all’invisibile, questo è l’obiettivo”, ha scritto surla rivista surrealista Minotaur nel 1933. Una ricerca percepibile nelle sublime stranezze di molte delle sue fotografie di moda.
MoMu
Nationalestraat 28, 2000 Antwerp (Belgio)
Until the 13 August
Stéphanie Dulout
