SALON/istanbul presents: Linda Maissan in the Chinese Room of Museum Geelvink-Hinlopen

'Pot Luck' - Collages of fashion magazine pages, illustrated with black yarns

Vogue covers recovered by Maissan

Artist and textile designer Linda Maissan creates clothing in which magazines are represented. With  handmade, unique T-shirts she shows in Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen, she blurs the boundaries between fashion and art.  
Maissan studies the representation of the female body and image in contemporary visual culture incorporating images into paperwork collages. She edits Vogue covers, luxury product advertorials and images fashion shoots by scrathing, pasting, cuting, painting or even sewing.
The female figures she chose are displayed in different guises, such as the warrior, the nymph, the hybrid, the transformer or the domestic figure. 
In earlier work she focused on transformation, metamorphosis and mythology by incorporating animal or cyborg-like elements in representations of women, thereby strengthening their superhuman proportions.   
Since 1998 she makes magazines and fanzines with titles like “The Editors Interview”, “Hust” and “Pot Luck”.  In more recent work Maissan investigates how human figures can approach the status of object, with references to Modernism, making use of excisiting materials such as photos, books and magazines.

Website with more work of Maissan, visit www.brightandbeautiful.nl 


Linda Maissan studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht and the Jan van Eyck Academy and participated before at SALON/maastricht. 

Salon/2 presents: Marga Weimans - 'Knot Dress' - Geelvinck

picture by Marij Rynja

The “ Knot and bow dress” selected for Salon/2 is part of the Wonderland Collection. The Wonderland collection tells the story of Weimans’ escape from the everyday urban ugliness of her work environment, located in the poorest area of Rotterdam, into a world of hallucinatory beauty. Dresses where printed with the facades of the gloomy flat building located opposite of Weimans studio. These dresses morph into fairy tale dresses seemingly made out of bright coloured candies.

The reason why this particular dress was selected for Salon/2 is because it contains all the disciplines Weimans applies in her designs. The dress shows where the surreal, the decay and ugliness meet. Its depicts the rough steel wire construction of a flat building, with blotches of concrete, dipped in soft foam and worn out silver. The story ends when hard wire morphes into into a silver bow; the symbol of the pretty girliness of an Alice in Wonderland, fallen through the rabbit hole. The drama of the materials and shapes gets extra meaning against the overwhelming baroque background of Museum Geelvinck.


About Marga Weimans:

After switching careers from business management to fashion, fashion designer Marga Weimans (b.1970) graduated from the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. Weimans won the i-D magazine Award for her graduation collection “The Power of my dreams”. The prize was work experience at the London i-D magazine headquarters. Weimans returned to the Netherlands and founded her namesake couture label. Weimans work, while highly biographical, experiments with materials and pushes the boundaries of art, architecture and design. Weimans showed her collection ”Debut” of, “2” and “Wonderland” off schedule during Haute Couture week in Paris and was featured in a number of exhibitions. The Groninger Museum is a regular collector of the work and momentarily exhibits pieces of the whimsical Wonderland collection in the group exhibit “Material world” with a.o. Iris van Herpen, Joris Laarman en Pieke Bergmans. "The Green Landscape dress" made out of coated foam, served as an icon for the exhibition and was printed on everything from the museums façade, to cakes and to nation wide distributed poster campagne.

Salon/2 presents: Mustafa Ozen - MODE/FASHION/FILM/ - Geelvinck

Mustafa Özen is a film historian/curator and currently working for the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. He received his PhD from the University Utrecht and published numerous articles about early cinema in various academic journals. Nowadays he is very much interested in the current development of the so-called 'fashion film'. His film 'MODE/FASHION/FILM' is a compilation of historical fashion films from the collection of the EYE Film Institute and contemporary work of a group of young generation Dutch fashion filmmakers/designers/artists. The aim of the compilation is to give an understanding of the notion of the 'fashion film' from the very beginnings to now, and at the same time to reflect the historical and contemporary material on each other.  

Salon/2 presents: dresses by Maryam Kordbacheh - 'The Fragile Formation' - Geelvinck

                                                                                                                      a detail of one of the dresses of Kordbacheh - image by Marij Rynja

When you enter the Museum Geelvinck, you have no idea you will enter a unique and very luxurious cannel house with a back garden that has the admosphere of a French garden. You have to tresspass this magnificant garden if you want to enter the well-conservated canel house filled with special salons where the elite lived, lissen to music or drank their cup's of tea at the time. But now, contemporay fashion and art is curated in the decorated rooms with wallpaintings, chandeliers and old music instruments. 

Five complex molded dresses of Maryam Kordbacheh are showed. Maryam Kordbacheh's collection 'The Fragile Formation' is inspired by the sensual shapes of the natural world and is based on the construction principles that are also to find in the nature.  

She tells: "I am fascinated to create fluid sculptures. 'The designs are a study in techniques and shapes, in which craftsmanship plays an important role. In spite of the complex and technical challenges involved in their designs, my work exudes an exacting simplicity; upholding a balance between experimental and wearable design; between dream and reality. [...] "For me, the allure of a design resides in its purity. My garments appear simple at first glance but are extremely refined, delicate and intimate sculptural forms. All pieces in my collection are handcrafted and molded from one single length of fabric. [...] In terms of design, the shoes for this collection are also inspired by the fluid swirling of the organic nature; female feet is wrapped. I use natural materials such as silk, cotton, silk jersey, cashmere, organdy… Most fabrics are then hand-dyed with organic pigments or natural dyes like tea, coffee and herbs. I use lightweight materials that can easy maintain their shape. In addition, I use single-color fabric so that the attention goes to the construction." - Maryam Kordbacheh, 2011.

About the artist: 

Maryam Kordbacheh (b. 1980) graduated cum laude from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and finished in 2009 the masters program of ArtEZ Fashion Design in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She participated in April 2011 at the 26th International Fashion & Photography Festival Hyères 2011 with her collection "The Fragile Formation", in cooperation with photographer René Habermacher.  


Other participants in Geelvinck are:
Mustafa Ozen - film about fashion films; Majid Karrouck -  stylist who will style his bride & groom on a daily basis; Kate van Harreveld - illustrations; Martine van 't Hul - embroideries, and more....

Salon/2 presents:sneak peaks of Make Up Lab/Kate van Harreveld/ Martine van 't Hul/ Hye Yoo Mi - Museum Geelvinck

What can you find at the Geelvinck Museum at the Keizersgracht 633? 

A sneak peak of.....

Make-up Lab 

The Make-up Laboratory is the result of the first collaboration between Maayan Ben Gal en Thomas Eurlings. 

The idea started with a fascination for colors and textures of make up. By looking at the exclusive products of Ellis Faas, Mayaan and Thomas came up with a visual concept for shoot. This resulted in a photographic approach of showing the inspirational colors and shapes of make up in a laboratory setting. A new use to the obvious. 

Folding Screen (2011)

illustration & embroidery on acetate, silk fabric/ cotton/ wooden frames/ pliers. 

Martine van 't Hul: "Individual panels are installed as a folding screen. Techniques that are incorporated in this work are inspired by a course in Japanese embroidery. A major theme in my work is what this installation transience reflected by the inspiration of wilted flowers. I painted them on fabric and then partially filled them up with embroidery. The image for me is as a coloring, which I then fill with needle and thread. While I embroidering, as if I was painting, I zoom in on the work. This creates a whole new world for me."  

'Free Work' by Kate van Harreveld 

Illustrations of dandies and men in fashion contexts are portrated by Dutch illustrator Kate van Harreveld, who's work is showed in many international magazines. During Salon/2 she presents non-commercial work she made in her spare time. Van Hareveld: "The drawings show the different characteristics of the depicted persons, and are a reflection of how I feel about them". The work is a mixture of drawings and digitally manipulated prints.

On one of her illustrations mini illustrations are placed above a fire place...illustrations in an illustration. Have you seen in which drawing  David Bowie is presented? 

Japan (2011) by Hye Yoo Mi 

(also showing in Magna Plaza, 2nd floor)

During transportation of Japanese Pottery to Europe patches of textile were used for protection. The patches are remaining pieces -with visible wear of use and age. The wear and fragile patches are often repaired with support of another piece at the back and strung by hand in order to prevent further tearing. The remaining pieces are obtained from private households and have often their origin in the lining of original Japanese Kimonos. Preserving and connecting of textiles is a recurring theme in the work of Hye Yoo Mi; textiles that have been preserved carefully are in this installation carefully treated, united and again preserved. Color and pattern are assembled in this meters long patchwork. The installation is on-going, which means that as long as remaining pieces are obtained from Japan, the work will be extended. 

This is just a detail of her patchwork tent...it's much bigger! 

About the artists:  


- Martine van 't Hul:

Martine van ’t Hul designs embroideries which can be both hung on the wall and are portable such as enlarged applications and brooches. She has, for example, designed a dress with application for singer- songwriter/ artist Björk. Martine graduated in 2002 at the Fashion Institute Arnhem and worked in Milan where she took over the sensitive Italian way of fashion design. The embroideries are characterized by the ton-sur-ton use of color - unfinished patterns, loose threads, stacking of beads and paillets - and the idea of “forgotten and unfinished”. 


- Kate van Harreveld:

Born 1971, Haarlem, the Netherlands. Education: Arnhem Academy of the Arts/ Fashion Design. Clients are  Marlies Dekkers, Viktor & Rolf, Elle, AvantGarde, and more. 


- Maayan Ben Gal & Thomas Eurlings: 

Maayan Ben Gal studied photography at the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv. She moved to the Netherlands and finished the BA at the KABK in The Hague. Her work is characterized with playful use of colors and forms. By using paper and cut out forms, Maayan tries to create a different and own new world, which gives a new meaning to daily objects. Maayan Ben Gal is currently represented by the House of Orange in Amsterdam. Her work has been shown in several galleries in Nijmegen, Den Haag, Leiden and Amsterdam. Amongst her editorial and commercial client are ELLE, Glamcult, BLEND and Tommy Hilfiger. Thomas Eurlings graduated successfully from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2006. After graduating he worked for influential names in the fashion and textile industry such as Alexander van Slobbe (orson+bodil) and Ulf Moritz (Sahco). At the moment he is working as a free lancer as well as designing products and interiors for his own label.


- Hye Yoo Mi:

Hye Yoo Mi, born in the Republic of Korea (Seoul), is living and working in Amsterdam. After a four-year technical training Handicraft Furniture Upholstering she continued her education at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. With specialization Autonomous Design at the fashion and textile Department she graduates in 2005. In 2008 HYM obtains her Master of Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Her work has evolved from technical to a fine craft. Her work has evolved from technical to a fine craft. In her sculptures and installations she combines and connects used materials and objects. In her sculptures and installations her interest in combining and connecting is highly recognizable. With textiles as main materials, it is often related to the human body. In her exclusive headgear collection HYM by Hye Yoo Mi the use of artificial hair in combination with the stitching and braiding techniques embodies handicraft imagery.

Also at Geelvinck:

Majid Karrouch

Maryam Kordbacheh

Marga Weimans

Mustafa Ozen (film)

Vroonland 

Zara Zerny.....

More about them in later posts...