David Remfry's Drawings for Stella McCartney
Thursday August 4, 2005
Currently on show at London's V & A Museums (is that a trendy update of Victoria and Albert?) is the David Remfry Fashion Into Art exhibition (parental advisory: nudity. unsuitable for children).
The exhibition of Remfry's drawings for designer Stella McCartney have been described by one reviewer as 'as retro as 1972...' but my first thoughts on viewing the drawings were of artists like Egon Scheile and Gustav Klimt.
His drawings have a sparse, elegant line and an uneasy eroticism - they aren't about the clothes. While the aforementioned reviewer considered the choice of drawings over photography to be 'risky', in an environment saturated with glossy, high-res photography, these sensual drawings do something that the most expensive photographer cannot do. They break through the visual clutter with their minimalism, and they posess an arresting shock value, with revealing poses that must have censors tearing their hair out.
The exhibition of Remfry's drawings for designer Stella McCartney have been described by one reviewer as 'as retro as 1972...' but my first thoughts on viewing the drawings were of artists like Egon Scheile and Gustav Klimt.
His drawings have a sparse, elegant line and an uneasy eroticism - they aren't about the clothes. While the aforementioned reviewer considered the choice of drawings over photography to be 'risky', in an environment saturated with glossy, high-res photography, these sensual drawings do something that the most expensive photographer cannot do. They break through the visual clutter with their minimalism, and they posess an arresting shock value, with revealing poses that must have censors tearing their hair out.


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