AVIARY No. 1. Silhouette in Contemporary Czech Fashion

The opening exhibition of the “Aviary” project introduces the work of Czech fashion designers and their approaches to silhouette.

The "Aviary" title chosen for the exhibition project reflects its primary inspiration, an aviary with birds of multicoloured feathers in which the Hyacinth Macaw appears alongside a flock of Little Egrets. It is a specific environment and, figuratively speaking, a platform for the presentation of a motley crew of artists centred on certain disciplines and subjects.

The opening exhibition of the "Aviary" project introduces the work of Czech fashion designers and their approaches to silhouette. A garment defined by its outline becomes a statue, an object; apart from creating the shape of body, it produces new spatial lines of a person and his or her environment, and becomes an active part of urban architecture. In addition, different manners of silhouettes have influenced individual historical eras. The exhibition will sum up current trends in Czech fashion design, as well as contemporary approaches to silhouette.

"Aviary No. 1" will showcase the work of both budding fashion designers and some renowned ones such as Hana Frišonsová, Martin Havel, Zdenka Imreczeová, Pavel Ivančic, Jindra Jansová, Petra Kafka, Ivana Kaňovská, Libor Komosný, Lucie Králová, Zuzana Kubíčková, Denisa Nová, Petra Pluháčková, Jakub Polanka, Radka Sirková and Anna Tušková (Chatty), Antonín Šimon, Lenka Štěpánková, Viktorie Vittori and Hana Zárubová.

 

 

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Workshop synopsis

Jitka Petřeková
A weekend of creative activities for professional fashion designers held in Brtnice, the birthplace of Josef Hoffmann, a major architect and designer of the Wiener Secession and modernism.
The workshop will draw inspiration from the genius loci of Josef Hoffmann's birthplace, as well as from the plethora of his designs. The subjects of and impetuses for individual models will be also derived from the historical situation in the early 20th century: radical changes in the fashion silhouette, fashion design as art, folk motifs and others. A selection of the designers' work and the workshop pieces will be presented at the "AVIARY No. 1. Silhouette in Contemporary Czech Fashion" exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

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