www.vernissage.tv | In 1991, the exhibition Dresses like Armour was shown in the Neue Hofburg in Vienna. The presentation of splendid Viennese state armour paired with evening dresses by the couturier Roberto Capucci has prompted the present project at the Tinguely Museum in Basel to revive within a larger context the glorious profession of the armourer. On the basis of pieces of armour mainly from the armoury in Graz, flanked by contemporary designers dresses and war props by Tinguely, Spoerri and Luginbühl, the exhibition is a celebration and parody of military history (from 1315 to 1991) and haute couture that is worn as a second skin. From the days of the prestigious profession of the armourer down to the entourage of the declared amateur locksmith Tinguely the development leads to the central issue of the hinge the malleability of iron. Home to the works of the self-declared amateur metalworker Jean Tinguely, the Museum hosts within its walls examples of the prominent schools and craft of the plate armourer, in a presentation of menswear fashioned of steel for war, tournament and the parade ground. Modern female styles are represented by the couturier Roberto Capucci, and works by Eva Aeppli and Niki de Saint Phalle as well as figurines by Oskar Schlemmer lend an existential component to this world stage. All this to be shown under the eye of all sorts of war props by Tinguely, Luginbühl and Spoerri, as well as a comic strip Apocalypse by MS Bastian: a survey of ...
Keywords: tinguely, armour, schlemmer, oskar, spoerri, luginbühl, art, rüstung, robe, evening, dress, museum, vernissage, basel, schweiz, roche
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