[Images from The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions, Sjarel Ex, Museums Boijmans Van Beuningen 2009]
D o p p e l g a n g e r -
I was recommended an amazing book - Doppelgänger: Images of the Human Being, (R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F. Schulze. January 2011) which has curated the most beautiful series of photographed work by various artists. The book presents seven chapters, which explore different approaches in capturing or questioning the identity of human beings. The chapters are: Embody, Dissolve, Appeal, Reshape, Perform, Deform, and Escape. Classic proportions are visually exploited with the use of decoration, sculpture and unconventional materials, which in turn, reinvents, disguises, obscures or enhances the form underneath.
I found most of the images breathtakingly beautiful, which I guess might lead one to question the nature of beauty or even fashion, since the possibilities here are re-imagined. The first two images, (Kimiko Yoshida) that I have posted are for me, particularly stunning. The Japanese artist continually cultivates her desire to investigate her own identity through these self-portraits.
[Above: Levi Van Veluw]
[Above: Madame Peripetite]
[Above: Nick Cave]
[Above: Ganz Toll, Urban Camouflage]
[Above: Leeman Smith]
[Above: Xavier Veilhan]
[Above: The Visualisation of Sound, Ted Sabarese]
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