Edwin Antonio’s time-traveling collages put contemporary fashions in unexpected contexts.
. Yet, to meet face-to-face, theirs is an Instagram collaboration based on a mutual appreciation for contextualizing contemporary design.
A trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art inspired the project for which Antonio, a master of Photoshop, has dressed characters from classical paintings in contemporary fashions and set them in themed settings, which range from New York City to the Palace of Versailles. In these scenarios, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s 18th-century beauties rock Gothic gear, and Botticelli’s Venus, Simonetta Vespucci, trades in her birthday suit for a striped minidress.
Though Antonio’s references come from classical paintings, his collages are somewhat surreal, and thus mirror these unprecedented and upside-down days. In bringing the past into the present, Greener suggests that the artist is taking the same path as many 21st-century creators who take a “mood-board remix” approach to design. “Fashion is a cultural industry,” the editor says. “It is [also] a concept between art and business.
Social distancing has created an appetite for connection and a longing for escape. Art is one source of the latter. “Oil paintings are nostalgic, filled with desire for the past,” says Greener. “They transfer our attention to what has been lost, and firmly grasp it to prevent it from slipping away; a form of resistance. As a nostalgic approach, collage art can reactivate material culture in its entirety in a truly convincing way.”is organized into five chapters.
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