“The best for the most for the least.” It was said that Christophe Lemaire picked up on Charles and Ray Eames' famous thoughts in an interview September 2016 on the launch of his latest collection with Uniqlo. Originaly the Eames were referring with their pithy sentence to William Morris and his wish not to "want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few."
Lemaire's Men collections somehow remind one on the great style of socialist writer and designer William Morris. Now I'd say, even better, with Lemaire Arts and Crafts goes Mod … for a few coy and cool that at least romanticize on socialism and democracy? Outfits, contrived and fabricated carefully into wardrobe pieces for the ones that take a little bit of distance, as the designer puts it himself.
Lemaire, Men Spring–Sumer 2017. Music: Witch, No Time, 1973 (Can’t You Hear Me?, Now-Again Records, 2016)
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This archive of texts is related to my art practice. It takes its suggestion from the scrollwork pattern, covering with its branches the monumental world without loosing one of its leaves. In the same way as this pattern sometimes resembles acanthus leaves and sometimes describes mere decor, the assembled texts oscillate between objects that show in different directions and yet still form a coherent whole.
Appearances
- Terachord - Michael Part, Nadim Vardag, Sarah Pichlkostner, Svenja Deininger, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, April 2015
- on painting zwei Ludwig Kittinger Constanze Schweiger, Pinacoteca, Vienna, September 2013
- Sommerfest, 21er Haus, Vienna, June 2013
- Introduce #2: Constanze Schweiger / Robert Rauschenberg, Schneiderei, Vienna, April 2013
- Talk to Me III, VeSch, Vienna, February 2013
- Scrollwork lesen, 21er Haus, Vienna, January 2013
- Scrollwork, 2012 (publication)
- Drei Beispiele ohne Titel, school, Vienna, September 2012
- Frame, 2011 (publication)
- I Grow Green, Fluc, Vienna, August 2009
Constanze Schweiger
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