It is always great to find correspondences between art, fashion and design and sometimes it can be unexpected. An example? a visual correspondence between one of Katherine Anne Rose's works and a fabric by Nanni Strada.
Glasgow-based photographer and artist Katherine Anne Rose creates very intricate works using just paper. Inspiration struck when her studio started filling up with rolls of backdrops.
Layering different colours and precisely cutting the paper with a scalpel and then folding some of the flaps, the artist started tracing grids, whirls and geometrical elements, creating monochromatic or multi-coloured works.
The artist decided to call these time-consuming yet beautifully crafted pieces based on mathematical principles (the works are not just based on repetitions and layering, but on variations and progressions) simply "Paper Works".
In some cases the artist was inspired by Bridget Riley, but also by Islamic tiles and designs, but one aqua green and cerulean work (last image in this post) calls to mind Nanni Strada's "Matrix" (1995) fabric (View this photo).
As you may remember from a previous post, Strada's "Matrix" was characterised by a pleated motif that created on the fabric surface three-dimensional effects and was conceived as a way to experiment with the continuity of geometrical effects. This correspondence is, obviously, totally casual, but very intriguing.
Katherine Anne Rose may be another artist who, at some point, may end up being involved in a fashion collaboration (you can imagine these works in the windows of a luxury store or translated into larger elements for fashion runways, but also integrated into a fashion collection): there are indeed some great possibilities behind the slashed and folded elements forming Katherine Anne Rose's paper works. From next week, the artist will be exhibiting (for three months) her works at Glasgow's salon Coe Hair - sounds like a great way to get a new haircut while getting mesmerised by these wonderful paper sculptures.
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