Duro Olowu: Making & Unmaking
- Catalogue from the exhibition Making & Unmaking, curated by fashion designer Duro Olowu at London's Camden Art Centre, 19 June–18 September 2016
- This exhibition was part of Camden Art Centre's series of artist-selected shows
- A high proportion of the artists exhibited are women
- Brings together an eclectic collage of works, some of which have strong political undercurrents, addresses issues surrounding cultural identity, sexuality and the representation of the body
- Olowu was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and works in London and New York. In 2005 Olowu won the New Designer of the Year Award at the British Fashion Awards, and in 2009 he was named Best International Designer at the African Fashion Awards. He is a favourite designer of celebrities including Michelle Obama, who commissioned him to decorate a room in the White House for Christmas 2015
- Glenn Ligon is an internationally celebrated artist and a longtime friend of, and collaborator on art-related projects with, Olowu
From Bauhaus jewellery and West African textiles to contemporary portraiture and sculpture, this unique volume explores the rituals of making that underpin an artist’s work.
Accompanying an exhibition curated by the groundbreaking Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu at Camden Art Centre, London, this book offers the opportunity to re-evaluate art and textiles from the nineteenth-century to the present.
Olowu selects material by more than 60 artists from around the world, including rarely seen works by Anni Albers, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili and Irving Penn, and newer paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. By setting up unexpected dialogues between historic and contemporary artists working in a myriad of media – textile, painting, sculpture, photography and collage – Olowu reveals a shared preoccupation with themes of gender, race, beauty, sexuality and the body.
The volume includes an in-depth conversation between Olowu and artist Glenn Ligon, along with texts by Jennifer Higgie and Shanay Jhaveri, that together highlight the intricate layers of history and place that influence the making of art.
- Publisher
- Ridinghouse
- ISBN
- 9781909932272
- Published
- 21st Jul 2022
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- World excluding USA & Canada
- Size
- 231 mm x 165 mm
- Pages
- 112 Pages
- Illustrations
- 91 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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