| Pattern
language
A
new exhibition at Krannert Art Museum explores the creative intersection
of art, fashion, and human needs and desires. “Pattern Language:
Clothing as Communicator” features 40 works by international
artists dating from 1960 to today and will be on view through
April 9.
The exhibition, curated by Judith Hoos Fox and organized by Tufts
University Art Gallery, investigates clothing as a means to express
and fulfill primary human needs – needs of the mind, body,
and soul. The works explore the interaction of clothing, fabric,
and the body as a form of communication and as a way of suggesting
new relationships between individuals and the coverings that protect
and define our bodies.
The many functions of clothing vary culturally, geographically,
and through history. This exhibition highlights the ways contemporary
artists go beyond the everyday utility of clothing and use garments
as a format to critique standard notions about clothing, fashion,
and society to invent new forms of communication among wearers,
their clothes, and the fashion system.
For information about accompanying programming, go to www.kam.uiuc.edu.
|
PUBLICATIONS
