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If Giuliana Rosso were to launch a fashion line, it would be perfect for the worst imaginable skeletons in the closet—or at least the quirkiest—as her parade of garments, hung like laundry at La Tôlerie, well shows. Dracula’s rubber teeth sprout on a Gatorade cap, creepy masks pop out of pullovers, and a cringe green Huggy Wuggy comes alive on an equally colored, piss-stained pair of jeans. These are just a few examples of a new series of painted second-hand clothes tailored with the inclusion of a variety of vintage toys, avidly accumulated over early morning flea markets scavenges as well as late night Vinted hunts. It’s the first time that the artist paints on clothes, yet it comes as no surprise that it’s not on canvas where paint is to be found, typically accompanied by a series of numerous drawings on dusting paper, also pivotal within her practice. Painting, in Rosso’s clutches, is often pushed beyond its physical boundaries. It manifests in expanded forms; as site-specific...More
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If Giuliana Rosso were to launch a fashion line, it would be perfect for the worst imaginable skeletons in the closet—or at least the quirkiest—as her parade of garments, hung like laundry at La Tôlerie, well shows. Dracula’s rubber teeth sprout on a Gatorade cap, creepy masks pop out of pullovers, and a cringe green Huggy Wuggy comes alive on an equally colored, piss-stained pair of jeans. These are just a few examples of a new series of painted second-hand clothes tailored with the inclusion of a variety of vintage toys, avidly accumulated over early morning flea markets scavenges as well as late night Vinted hunts. It’s the first time that the artist paints on clothes, yet it comes as no surprise that it’s not on canvas where paint is to be found, typically accompanied by a series of numerous drawings on dusting paper, also pivotal within her practice. Painting, in Rosso’s clutches, is often pushed beyond its physical boundaries. It manifests in expanded forms; as site-specific...More
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