Diana Dias-Leão', glass dresses
I took a trip to the Walker Art Gallery and Tate Liverpool over the weekend,
(which was nice to have a break from my own work and look at some great artists
and designers!) where I found a mixture of unique art works from different
aspects of art and design. Which ranged from sculpture, paint, textile and
print.
I enjoyed looking at the ceramics at the Walker Art Gallery and seeing how
pattern design is applied in that context, though I was really attracted to a
collection of glass dresses.
These glass dresses are by artist called Diana Dias-Leão' and deal with the
issues of body image. I found these glass dresses very pretty and unique
pieces, though I like the concept of using a sharp yet breakable material;
which is a good metaphor for describing someone with low self esteem.
At the Tate Gallery was an exhibition called Smoke Signals, by Robert
Therrien which had an overwhelmingly large set of table and chairs! Another
piece invlolved a towering stack of enormous plates, which had a dizzying
effect after walking around them! I liked the parody of such boring and simple
everyday objects we use, becoming larger than life and in which defeated their
main function and purpose.
The exhibition upstairs of great contemporaries and
modern artists, including the likes of the infamous Marcel Duchamp Urinal,
Mondrian, Warhol and Bacon. One of my favourites
is The Lobster Telephone Dali, 1936 just because it’s so iconic for its strangeness
and witty Chindogu idea, the lobster replacing the telephone speaker which like
Therrien could be seen as a Chindogu idea as it lacks its real function and
use. I felt thoroughly inspired by the abstract themes and colours in this room
and thought how making these abstract textures, prints and patterns could be
applied in my own works and onto fabric.
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