project of art evolution 01

Painter Viwa 比巴

Viwa wants to recreate the modern version of decorative arts and their composition from the Edo Period. His works are inspired from the paintings on the traditional folding screens - byobu, and the traditional sliding doors - fusuma, primarily served the purpose of decoration, and that the role of the images and patterns on the surface, represented the method of déformer, is to provide a contrast in order to bring out their decorative function. He believes that, aside from serving as a medium of expression for the artist, paintings can also play a decorative role.His goal is to create unique images by reproducing history while at the same time incorporating modern elements such as street culture and graffiti into the design. By examining the historical era in which decorative arts flourished and their roles in that historical context, he hopes to present the role of art in the world today as well as the direct link between the modern world.

garment: digital print on 100% silk chiffon

model: Kara E.

 Fashion Designer Meiyi Cheung

Meiyi believes fashion is not just for chase and grab. It is a piece of delicately crafted art piece that goes with the form, sensation and motion of human body, presents to the rest of the world who we are. While clothes serves as our protection gear against nature, fashion turns us into a piece of walking art.  

Each season, Meiyi collaborates with artists from different discipline. Use fashion as a tool to develop the 2nd life of the artist's work. She uses textile, elements of trend and outfit silhouette to address the beauty of the original work.

Meiyi turned Viwa's painting into one of her six fashion theme- the element of women, vigour. She saw the lines and movement of the pattern and color usage symbolizes the inner energy of modern women, splendid and continuous.

 

material: cardboard, colored paper, 

wooden dowel

technique: laser cut and lamination

Head piece artist Tricia Flanagan 傅織女

To Tricia, 'Vigour' draws on the landscape of the body. The topographic    mapping is not eroded as a usual landscape would be - worn down from the weather, on the contrary the shapes evoke an upward energetic movement like splashing water, reflects the vigorous lifestyle of nowadays women.