Iris Van Herpen Exhibition Utrecht

The New Craftsmanship Iris trainguard Herpen? and her Inspiration With my meet I specialise to show that invent can for sure have an added value to the world In the Centraal Museum of Utrecht, Netherlands, renowned fashion decorator/ artificer Iris train Herpen (1984) exhibits a exceedingly personal side of her puzzle out for the semipublic from 29 June until 9 October 2011. By secern her designs with what worked as the extravagance behind them, train Herpens futuristic access code to fashion is displayed with art dating back to the sixteenth part to the nineteenth century creating an unusual underground in the general mood of the show.In access to a discriminate mingled with overage and new, whizz will withal square up work by other contemporaneous artists that have inspired van Herpen or collaborated with her. These include artists such as American-born woodcarver Kris Kuksi Dutch choreographer Nanine Linning hat designers Stephen Jones and Irene Bussemaker Dutch artist Bart Hess who shares van Herpens futuristic approach in his work and architect Daniel Widrig whose main influence in the show was with 3D printing. Upon entering the sight one enters a calm quadrangle with soft music playing in the background.Looking up towards the high raised cap you can see Nanine Linnings opera house inspired per bringance piece with van Herpens extravagant costumes and haute couture creations in bigger than life projections on the bare clean-living hem ins. Below these displays one would find the authentic costumes as seen in the performance. Referring back to the contrast between old and new, or quite quaint and innovative, it was interesting to note which of van Herpens designs were paired up with what ancient artefact and why.Leaving the theatricality of Linning behind, the show carries you away from the modernity of projectors through to a serial publication of antique items including a bookshelf, chairs and tables as come up as painti ngs by the popular Parisian painter Pierre Joseph Sauvage and an expensive silk wall panel from Lyon in France. These were shown next to one of van Herpens more wear garments, a dress, which could be assumed to be made of fabric containing metal threads, having been concentinaed to occasion a voluminous shape smelling(p) of coral reefs. Similar to the layout of the exhibition, VanHerpens approach to fashion stems from the interaction between handmade, an unfashionable method of construction, and innovation, through constant pursuit of new techniques and materials. One of van Herpens most recently discovered techniques is a form of rapid prototyping called 3D printing. This engineering came into use in 2003 mainly for duplicating rich artefacts for museums. Cleverly, through collaboration with architect Daniel Widrig, van Herpen uses this technology to create what looks like etched dresses or headgear, once again reminiscent of the shape of coral reefs or whatever sorts of sk eletal forms.This side of van Herpens collection was shown alongside work of goldsmiths form the s fifty-fiftyteenth-century. This juxtapose truly emphasized the origins of the inspiration for her designs. There was an apparent connection between the auricular styled crockery, plates, crowns etc. and her laser sintering technique. With make headway regard to the 3D printing technique, the designer herself believes, it is a matter a metre before we can print the wearable we wear today.It is truly inspire to see an artist of such a young age produce something that has the prospects of having a massive impact on the intentness itself and, well, everything really. If we can produce our clothing with 3D printing technology, maybe we can also produce furniture through the alike(p) process, or even houses, maybe even bridges and buildings. Just imagine As for the overall impression of the exhibition itself the construct and story behind it was thoughtful and interesting, the layout wa s appealing, and the work itself was beautiful and innovative.