Three exhibitions celebrate creativity

Fashion and art have always been an interesting couple. Three fashion labels are currently celebrating their passion for art, each with very different concepts, collaborations and forms of presentation.

Artists In Flux – A collaboration between Gucci and Nomad

Nomad, the art and design fair for collectors initiated in 2017, started a collaboration with Gucci this winter under the title “Artists in Flux”. It is a multifaceted curatorial project with artists and designers from all over the world, which will take place in different cities this year.

The three artists in St. Moritz. Image: Artists In Flux; Nomad & Gucci

The first chapter of Artists in Flux includes a group exhibition: Three internationally acclaimed artists – Lola Montes Schnabel (American artist based in Sicily), Yves Scherer (Swiss artist based in New York) and Tsherin Sherpa (Nepalese artist with Residents of California and Kathmandu) – have been invited to exhibit their work as part of the next edition of Nomad at Grace La Margna in St. Moritz.

The three artists will travel to St. Moritz with their Gucci luggage. For Gucci, “luggage is not just a container, but also a symbol of travel and experience,” says the press release. The first exhibition in St. Moritz took place from February 23rd to 26th, further stations are to follow.

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The artist Yves Scherer in St. Moritz. Image: Artists In Flux; Nomad & Gucci

The Nomad takes place every two years at various extraordinary architectural locations in Europe.

Photographic exhibition at Armani/Silos: Guy Bourdin: Storyteller

On the occasion of Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani opened the exhibition Guy Bourdin: Storyteller at the Armani/Silos showroom. As a tribute to the work of the French photographer, the exhibition aims to present his compositional and narrative intentions and go beyond the provocation that has always been associated with his work. In the tradition of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and artist Edward Hopper, whom he greatly admired, Guy Bourdin was essentially a storyteller, able to condense entire novels, mostly detective stories or noir films, into a single shot.

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Giorgio Armani in the Guy Bourdin exhibition. Photo: Courtesy of Giorgio Armani.j

For the exhibition, Giorgio Armani and the Guy Bourdin Estate have selected one hundred photographs, including both iconic shots and lesser-known images. These include works that show Bourdin’s love of cinema, ad campaign images that look like crime scenes or police chases and allude to his fascination with Alfred Hitchcock and the theme of the “mysterious plot”.

From the 1950s, the artist, who was born in Paris in 1928, also began taking fashion photographs for French Vogue. “This exhibition is a further confirmation of my intention to make Armani/Silos a center of contemporary photographic culture, embracing everything related to the Armani world, but also things that couldn’t be further from it. At first glance, Guy Bourdin is not an artist with whom I have much in common: his language is clear, graphic and haunting. A sense of provocation is immediately apparent in his work, but what strikes me most – and what I wanted to focus on – is his creative freedom, his storytelling skills and his great love of cinema. Bourdin didn’t follow the crowd and didn’t compromise, and I can identify with that. I don’t think there is any other way to stamp the collective imagination,” commented Giorgio Armani.

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Photo from the exhibition ‘Guy Bourdin: Storyteller’. Vogue Paris, May 1970_© 2023, The Guy Bourdin Estate

The exhibition at Armani / Silos in Milan opened on February 24th and runs until August 31st, 2023.

Marni presents artist Flaminia Veronesi at the Milan flagship store

Until April 30, 2023, Marni’s Milan flagship store will focus on the creative dialogue between art and fashion. The exhibition by the Milanese artist Flaminia Veronesi will be shown there parallel to the current collection. A capsule is also available as part of the Spring-Summer 2023 collection, featuring prints created in collaboration with the artist and reflecting her imaginative hand drawings.

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Marni Flagship Store with the exhibition of Flaminia Veronesi. Photo: Marni

The exhibition, entitled “The Hermitcrab’s Wundershell”, is conceived as the cabinet of wonders of a family of hermit crabs who collect shells and mythological iconography, deities that, thanks to their anthropomorphic features and sensational looks, become the protagonists of a monumental gallery of portraits. A parade of fairytale or cartoon characters with hybrid bodies and iridescent complexions, sporting provocative dresses.

The Marni Montenapoleone store is conceived as a hub where fashion, interior design and creativity come together. The exhibition adds a new element that encourages discovery and reflection, and enhances the shopping experience, the company writes.

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Marni Flagship Store with the exhibition of Flaminia Veronesi. Photo: Marni

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