American artist John Baldessari has drove the blend of art and fashion to a new level with a showing of oversized mannequins aroused by famous sculptures and embellished like catwalk models.The show, "The Giacometti Variations" at the Prada Foundation in Italy's fashion capital of Milan waiting December 26, traits nine emaciated sculptures, apiece 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) tall, costumed in colorful clothes and ironic accessories designed by Baldessari.
Processions between solid columns, the lean bronzed statues are aroused by surrealist Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. They take over the minimalist space where trend-setting fashion designer Miuccia Prada typically owns her horded fashion shows.
"Giacometti's builds are the most thin and emaciated sculptures that subsist. Why not push that further?" Baldessari said in a proclamation. "Moreover, it is au courant, nearly de rigueur, that fashion models be particularly tall and thin."
The 79-year-old intangible artist -- who has succeeded worldwide honor for his colorful creations and was festive by a display which released at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art last month -- remunerated honor to the quickness with which fashion trends are devoured.
The nine statues will wear 18 different outfits as the Milan exhibition unfolds. Indications comprise film stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart as well as bronze ballerinas by French impressionist artist Edgar Degas.
Baldessari decorated his mannequin statues with clothes and articles consisting of a hot-pink bow in satin, a trench coat, a pair of long blond tresses, and the burning pyre of Saint Joan of Arc.
The Los Angeles-based artist alleged the design of tall sculptures starts because nearly all galleries, unlike fashion show beauty salons, have ramparts tailored to collectors' houses.
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