Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera has opened a significant exhibition juxtaposing clothes designed by Giorgio Armani, the legendary stylist who died this month, with work by the Renaissance artists Caravaggio, Bellini and Raphael. Titled Giorgio Armani: Milano, per amore, the present options greater than 120 Armani-designed objects organized among the many museum’s everlasting exhibition.
The present was unveiled on Wednesday (24 September), as Milan Vogue Week was getting underway. On 28 September, Brera may even host a Giorgio Armani-curated catwalk within the museum’s courtyard, a stone’s throw from the stylist’s lavish Through Borgonuovo house. Each initiatives have been initially conceived to have fun 50 years for the reason that launch of the Armani trend home within the district, the place its creator had lived for the reason that Nineteen Eighties. “Armani was and stays the image of Brera,” Angelo Crespi, the Pinacoteca’s director, tells The Artwork Newspaper.
Armani oversaw planning of the exhibition till shortly earlier than his dying, so it may be seen as his closing venture. “All selections in regards to the itinerary have been his,” Crespi mentioned.
Among the clothes on show seem to recall particulars from particular person works on the Pinacoteca. A cluster of darkish clothes with white accents, together with a black-and-white sequined swimsuit and a velvet tailcoat adorned with a floral brooch, emphasise the chiaroscuro dramatism of Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus (1606). Close by, mannequins in sand-coloured blouses and cotton trench coats recall the veiled Muslim ladies kneeling in Bellini’s huge St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria (1504–1507).
Nevertheless, Crespi claimed that, throughout a go to final 12 months to the museum, Armani mentioned he was extra eager about capturing the “ambiance and colors” of the museum’s rooms. “He paused earlier than Mantegna’s Lamentation over the Lifeless Christ and mentioned: ‘I don’t need to examine myself with these masters’,” Crespi recalled of the go to.
An set up view of Giorgio Armani: Milano, per amore
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The exhibition goals to permit guests to understand asepects of the clothes and work on present in a brand new gentle. “Artwork historical past and trend come collectively, inviting guests to find putting chromatic and materials contrasts,” a press launch says. Armani exhibited at different museums throughout his lifetime, together with at a 2001 present at New York’s Guggenheim. Gian Luca Bauzano, a trend author at Corriere della Sera, says that present broke new floor: “For the primary time, a designer structured a significant monographic exhibition round himself,” he says.
For Brera, the Armani present is a part of a drive to broaden the museum’s attraction past conventional artwork lovers. Because the launch of Grande Brera—the rebranded museum advanced that encompasses the Palazzo Citterio, a brand new trendy artwork area, and Leonardo da Vinci’s Final Supper—customer numbers have boomed. Brera and Citterio alone are projected to attract 600,000 guests by year-end, a 20% rise on final 12 months, Crespi says.
Giorgio Armani: Milano, per amore, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, till 11 January
