The human body is a key theme, a nod to the designer’s early training as a ballet dancer, but treated more from a scientific angle, from the cells to the muscles and bone, Pitiot said.Ī giant hyperrealistic wave installation by Japanese collective Mé is linked to the fact that the body is composed of 70 percent water and that van Herpen, now based just outside of Amsterdam, lives under constant threat of rising sea levels. “I think a lot of my work is about a hypnotic sense - an illusion,” van Herpen allowed. It is visually arresting from start to finish, with a touch of the magician. Visitors are advised to charge their smartphones to the max before visiting the exhibition - tantamount to visiting a natural history museum, a contemporary art gallery, a planetarium and a fashion show combined. Van Herpen has collaborated with artists including Jolan van der Wiel, Rogan Brown and Neri Oxman, and such cutting-edge architects as Philip Beesley and Benthem and Crouwel Architects.įor the exhibition’s first rooms, titled “Water and Dreams,” Beesley and van Herpen conscripted Rotterdam-based Hans Boodt Mannequins to create mannequins that seem assembled from hovering liquids. While contacting artists, industrial designers and other experts from various fields, Pitiot and associate curator Louise Curtis rarely needed to explain van Herpen’s work, or do much convincing for them to contribute artifacts, bespoke artworks or information for the exhibition. Joseph Walsh, an Irish furniture-maker, is another figure from the design world who follows van Herpen’s work. I think a lot of my work is about a hypnotic sense - an illusion.” Iris van Herpen The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is renowned for its cutting-edge approach to urbanism and future ways of living, dedicated to subjects not dissimilar to van Herpen’s scope of interest, which is why students and researchers there study her designs, Pitiot said. “It was important also for us to create links with science, because Iris is very connected to physics and all the other sciences connected to humans,” Pitiot said. “ Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses” mingles about 100 haute couture creations with fossils, skeletons, avant-garde artworks, microscopes, various tools and installations meant to invoke the entire cosmos. Iris van Herpen Explores Outer Reaches of Fashion Possibilities
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