Dries Van Noten Los Angeles Hosts Julian Kalinowski Exhibit
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Dries Van Noten is presenting an exhibition of work by Julian Kalinowski, a U.K.-based artist who specializes in dolls.
The installation will feature a dozen of dolls exclusively dressed for Dries Van Noten Los Angeles. It will also include three poster-sized photos of the pieces as well as prints from Kalinowski’s original Taboo club photo collection.
Kalinowski paints the figures by hand, dresses them up in bespoke outfits and places them in a setting to create miniature portraits that evoke the mid-20th century. The artist says each doll represents “little starlets, some filled with hope, or despair; some fear failure, fading beauty or old age; his interest lies in dispossessed characters, lost souls, women on the edge.”
“My themes are quite specific – cultural references from old Hollywood and European art cinema, archetypal women,” the artist said in a statement. “My interest lies in dispossessed characters, ‘lost souls,’ the lonely types, ‘women on the edge,’ the brassy… Women are always on view, but maybe my work is also about how gay men have traditionally hidden themselves, and could only see themselves, portrayed through these fractured archetypes of women. Of course, Hollywood is the perfect location for that; the Boulevard of Broken Dreams where representations of the chasm between desire and reality haunt the picture imperfect faces that inhabit the places where ‘every man and every woman is a star.’”
The Kalinowski exhibit is on display now at Dries Van Noten Los Angeles in The Big House, 451 N La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048. The event is open to the public from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. PT until Feb. 12.
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