Marshall Saal, 1994, Germany
Museo Pecci, 1997, Italy
Documenta X, 1997 (Documentation), Germany
Cittadellarte, 1998, Italy
Despite a number of more or less fascinating, more or less utopian attempts to change the status quo, art is still seen as something which dresses the exterior of existence and not as something which dwells within it (or art as a ready made cloths). If a garment can be regarded as something awaiting the form of a human body – sanctioned according to the times – then perhaps this bad habit can be overcome.
Giovanni Iovane, Published in “Incontri”, Documenta X
4 seamstresses, multiple businesses, the museum and the visitors collaborated to make a lively exhibition and give the stage to the seamstresses, who usually work in assembly lines to sew cloth for little pay. The seamstresses designed the clothes out of a colorful fabric, printed to be the catalogue of the exhibition. The visitors were experiencing and buying products and engaged with the usually unseen factory workers of the fashion world.
Progetto arte, a project by Michelangelo Pistoletto, is based on the idea, that art is the most sensitive and complete expression of human thought and that the time has come for artists to take on the responsibility of establishing ties among all other human activities, from economics to politics, science to religion, education to behaviour – in a word among the threads that make up the fabric of society. The range of questions is oriented after aspects of everyday life; clothing, food, furniture, architecture, music and urban situations create the point of departure for artistic reflection.