ART & FASHION CROSS PATHS
Four creative, sophisticated and stylish art curators and gallerists meet at the point where Art and Fashion cross paths, and together we investigate their boundaries.
ANNA CHATZINASSIOU
ELEFTHERIA TSELIOU
IN HER OWN WORDS
I became interested in art from a very young age, thanks to my family’s love for it. I initially studied Economics in New York and continued my studies in Art History. From 2007, and for three years, I worked at Moeller Fine Art New York, where I came into contact with the Art market for the first time. Fashion, as the big designers propose it through their creations, is something that is of great interest to me. However, fashion trends, which change so quickly, are not something that particularly concerns me.
The boundaries between art and fashion are clear. Fashion, however, is often influenced by art. Fashion and art are very different, and therefore not comparable. Genius designers like Issey Miyake, Azzedine Alaia, Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfeld have no particular kinship with Gerhard Richter or Willian Kentridge.
From the Renaissance, Mondrian, Andy Warhol, or Japanese art, influences in modern art, are many. Fashion, of course, has its own long history, with constant references made to it today. If I could include any fashion objects in an exhibition, I would display in a showcase a bottle of Chanel No.5, which has remained unchanged since 1924, together with a work by Andy Warhol from his series “Ads: Chanel”.
ELLI KANATA
CHRISTINA ANDROULIDAKI
Christina is a curator and gallerist of Can Gallery. She is currently hosting the solo exhibition by Konstantinos Ladianos, for which she turned the gallery into a men’s “Pink Boudoir”, with embroidery, painting and crafts. The most important exhibition of modern art in America, the New Museum Triennial in New York opened its gates recently, its main piece being the installation entitled “Dusk & Dawn Look Just The Same (Riot Tourism)”, by her artist Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos while Petros Efstathiadis – a CAN artist – just won the first HSBC prize in France for his photography. His monograph will be published in April, by the prestigious Xavier Barral editions.
IN HER OWN WORDS
I realized that I like to read and look at art when I was about 15. Growing up in the countryside, Art History served as an enormous window into the world. In 1999 I left to study in London.I studied everything from African Art to the History of Hindu Architecture, to end up with the History of Modern European Art. A few more years of studying and work…and I realized that my passion is contemporary art.
In Greece, we need to cultivate an art education. We need to learn how to see, think and discuss more. We need to help people learn how to fall in love with art all over again. To see art as an escape, as nourishment and therapy for our daily problems.
Fashion is a tool for me. The shortest route to communicating parts of our personality. More important than following fashion is having a personal style. I like clothes with strong colors and motifs, hats and accessories. Nevertheless, in my daily life I more often than not, wear Vans, a black pair of jeans and a white shirt.
I would really like to exhibit clothes, accessories and catwalk props designed by Jean-Paul Gautier. A few years ago I saw the “From Sidewalk to Catwalk” retrospective in Munich, with his work, and I admired it greatly.
CREDITS
Words:
Michaela Theofilou
Photographer:
Ioanna Hatziandreou
Styling:
Christina-Maria Kravvari
Issue:
New A(r)titude | April 2018