Exhibition

Japanese by Design
Broadbent Gallery, May 19, 1999 to February 27, 2000 
Anne Bissonnette, Curator
  

Morimura Art Dress #1
Pleated polyester with mirror images of two women; Ingres' La Source and Morimura's praying woman. Yasumasa Morimura for Miyake's "Pleats Please" Guest Artist Series, Winter 1996. 

On loan from Mary W. Baskett,
L99.4.19ab.   

  
Garments that React with the Body
 
  

Invited by Miyake to contribute a design for the "Guest Artist Series" of "Pleats Please", Yasumasa Morimura created a composite work inspired by an Ingres' nude, La Source. The printed image, borrowing Ingres' spatial perspective, supplies an illusion of three dimensions, while the wearer's body dissolves the illusion into three-dimensional space. Miyake opens a dialogue with the wearer by creating garments that are works in progress waiting to be completed by the form and movement of an individual body. He studies to the inherent qualities of the pleated fabric and creates garments that ignore age, gender and stereotypical body shapes. 

 

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