Bruno Munari already appeared in a previous post on this site, but he came back to my mind again after seeing a recent fashion collection. Actually it wasn't just Munari, but some images from his volume Original Xerographies (1977).
Munari collected in this book images of objects/pictures caught up in movement that he produced by moving a sheet of paper in a photocopying machine (in Munari’s definition these were "methodical studies performed on an electrostatic copier").
According to Munari this process created an original object and not a copy of a specific object. To make his point, the eclectic artist, designer and pedagogue included in that book a series of samples showing all the potential of a photocopying machine.
In Munari’s hands the photocopier became an ideal tool, capable of creating graphic motifs, replicating moving objects in space and come up with a wide assortment of other images.
Dion Lee's S/S 2013 collection made me think about some of the more graphic images in Original Xerographies. Though there are no black and white tones in this collection that may remind of the art produced by a photocopier, there are plenty of laser cut motifs or distorted and replicated graphic lines (in bold neon colours) criss-crossing high-tech fabrics such as neoprene bonded to Lycra employed for skirt suits and dresses.
Another element that seems to create Munari's electrographic effects is the 3M Scotchlite retro-reflective yarn, often used by contemporary designers to create interestingly futuristic yet subtle luminous effects in modern knitwear.
If you fancy carrying out further Munari-inspired ingenious experiments, get some radicchio plants, cabbage lettuce, Romaine lettuce and chicory and replicate his vegetable stamp prints (as seen in Roses in the Salad, 1973) on fabric creating unusual colour studies.
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i thought of these to artistes
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http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=nathan+hylden&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=KVrpT_GEGJOP4gSlwdSeDg&biw=1624&bih=879&sei=LVrpT_aYCI_2sgbDgPm_Dg
Posted by: joe | June 26, 2012 at 07:45 AM